Does anyone have a screenshot they'd be willing to share of what the results look like in light of the fact that we've bear-hugged this site?
Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity
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#42This looks pretty spiffy. I think it'd be really neat to look at the content and show repeating topics / keywords.
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#43About a year ago, I saw a Hacker News comment by someone claiming to sleep on average 0-2 hours a day. There were 20 replies to that comment but (he) never responded to any questions, and continued posting replies to other threads in the coming days. I pulled all of (his) comments and their post times via the Hacker News API and plotted it, which revealed an interesting lack of posts from midnight-6AM EST across ~150…
Nice job! I am very skeptical of people who claim to not need much sleep. We know there have been some who really needed much less sleep but they are widely known to be geniuses or hyper-productive (Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk etc.) Most people who claim to sleep only 2 hours a day or whatever are probably being a little dishonest or are miscounting.
> they are widely known to be geniuses or hyper-productive (Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk etc.)
I don't buy this. I don't know life of Nikola Tesla, but the recent activity of Elon Musk might be explained by a serious and chronic lack of sleep.
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#44This is fun, I'd like to see the same visualization on posts as submissions. I think the points are more interesting than the number of replies.
Hey dyeje,
> I'd like to see the same visualization on posts and submissions
Would you like to see the same visualization for the top-stories feed? If not, could you elaborate on your request?
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#45This is fun, I'd like to see the same visualization on posts as submissions. I think the points are more interesting than the number of replies.
Hey dyeje, > I'd like to see the same visualization on posts and submissions Would you like to see the same visualization for the top-stories feed? If not, could you elaborate on your request?
Hm not sure. Basically, I think Submissions graph is cool because the Y axis is points and it's fun to see your most popular posts. I'd like to see that same visualization applied to the comments graph (so replacing replies with points as the Y axis). Sometimes you can have a really popular comment that doesn't get many replies because people agree with it. Replies feels more like an indicator of controversial-ness, which are posts I'm probably not going to look as fondly back on.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice job! I am very skeptical of people who claim to not need much sleep. We know there have been some who really needed much less sleep but they are widely known to be geniuses or hyper-productive (Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk etc.) Most people who claim to sleep only 2 hours a day or whatever are probably being a little dishonest or are miscounting.
> they are widely known to be geniuses or hyper-productive (Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk etc.) I don't buy this. I don't know life of Nikola Tesla, but the recent activity of Elon Musk might be explained by a serious and chronic lack of sleep.
Nikola Tesla was certainly not for not being entirely sane, so that might be evidence there as well.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey dyeje, > I'd like to see the same visualization on posts and submissions Would you like to see the same visualization for the top-stories feed? If not, could you elaborate on your request?
Hm not sure. Basically, I think Submissions graph is cool because the Y axis is points and it's fun to see your most popular posts. I'd like to see that same visualization applied to the comments graph (so replacing replies with points as the Y axis). Sometimes you can have a really popular comment that doesn't get many replies because people agree with it. Replies feels more like an indicator of controversial-ness,…
Points for comments are not public, so the only way to create that visualization would be to scrape your own comment history.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice job! I am very skeptical of people who claim to not need much sleep. We know there have been some who really needed much less sleep but they are widely known to be geniuses or hyper-productive (Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk etc.) Most people who claim to sleep only 2 hours a day or whatever are probably being a little dishonest or are miscounting.
> they are widely known to be geniuses or hyper-productive (Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk etc.) I don't buy this. I don't know life of Nikola Tesla, but the recent activity of Elon Musk might be explained by a serious and chronic lack of sleep.
Short Sleepers certainly exist, but they're rare. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/08/415261/after-10-year-searc...
But I've usually heard of them needing ~4 hours of sleep, not 2.
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#49About a year ago, I saw a Hacker News comment by someone claiming to sleep on average 0-2 hours a day. There were 20 replies to that comment but (he) never responded to any questions, and continued posting replies to other threads in the coming days. I pulled all of (his) comments and their post times via the Hacker News API and plotted it, which revealed an interesting lack of posts from midnight-6AM EST across ~150…
Im not even sure why someone would want to be "bragging" about something that is proven to be awful for health and well being.
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#50Genuine question: where does this fall with regards to GDPR? If you aggregate data about a European, don’t you technically need to ask them for permission first?