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Re: Show HN: Monitor a Hacker News post over time

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Post by jborichevskiy »

Neat! I wonder what happened here:

https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/Show%20...

> #6 (0) 184 (1) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:08:54.566Z

> #6 (-1) 183 (149) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:06:55.781Z

> #7 (3) 34 (-148) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:04:56.732Z

> #4 (0) 182 (1) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:00:54.504Z

Also, I find myself wishing for a "new comments since your last visit" like Reddit Gold gives you, or some way to "subscribe" to a node of comments and its replies. Anyone have any good solutions for this?

Re: Show HN: Monitor a Hacker News post over time

#4

Post by nneonneo »

I think it should identify posts by ID rather than by post title - it seems that reposts and dupes confuse it (for example, the current top post was posted a total of three times per HN search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., which causes the apparent history in this tool to bounce around a lot: https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/The%20P...)

Re: Show HN: Monitor a Hacker News post over time

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Post by [deleted] »

jborichevskiy wrote: post #3

Neat! I wonder what happened here: https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/Show%20... > #6 (0) 184 (1) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:08:54.566Z > #6 (-1) 183 (149) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:06:55.781Z > #7 (3) 34 (-148) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by ma…

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Re: Show HN: Monitor a Hacker News post over time

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Post by christian_fei »

nneonneo wrote: post #4

I think it should identify posts by ID rather than by post title - it seems that reposts and dupes confuse it (for example, the current top post was posted a total of three times per HN search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... , which causes the apparent history in this tool to bounce around a lot: https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/The%20P... )

i agree, it initially was like that, then i thought the experience would be better by using the title to identify a post.

Re: Show HN: Monitor a Hacker News post over time

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Post by uoaei »

christian_fei wrote: post #7
nneonneo wrote: post #4

I think it should identify posts by ID rather than by post title - it seems that reposts and dupes confuse it (for example, the current top post was posted a total of three times per HN search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... , which causes the apparent history in this tool to bounce around a lot: https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/The%20P... )

i agree, it initially was like that, then i thought the experience would be better by using the title to identify a post.

Internally, represent the articles as IDs. This will eliminate duplicate posts, though not necessarily duplicate articles linked in posts. You can periodically fetch and cache the title pretty easily, since the ID is most of the (interesting characters in the) URL for the page.
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