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Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by dclusin »

135792468 wrote: post #206
kamilszybalski wrote: post #201

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I think it's interesting at how many of these are "Ask HN" type posts. It could be that people are often seeking to gather specific crowd-sourced knowledge from experts, what happened to Quora?

SEOs happened

This community happened to it. The number of top-voted hacker news blog posts talking about how they acquired their first n users by shitposting on Quora about their startup are too many to enumerate. I think the difference between here and Quora is that the mods here are more opinionated and will kill posts that feel spammy/use voter rings/etc.

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Post by ImTheMaddest »

johnmw wrote: post #240
silisili wrote: post #203

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1. Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087418 2. Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042 3. Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775744 4. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072 5. Ask HN: W…

Thank you! Now I just wonder - did you use some command line magic to do this, or did you compose it manually? (no complaints if you did, but it would be interesting to know how to do that in a line of script). Anyway, thanks again.

Pretty dirty solution, but:

cat list| cut -d ' ' -f 4 | xargs -I{} echo "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={}" | paste list - | cut -d ' ' -f 5-

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by jacquesm »

dang wrote: post #178

The OP says " The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. " How was "most active" defined? (Edit: oh I see - the users who post the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352688 ). It's an interesting list, and it never occurred to me that by counting the top favorites of different subsets of users you might get quite different interesting lists. I got curious about what…

Ask HN is the best feature of HN bar none and it is unfortunately under exposed as well. As far as I am concerned it could be the homepage.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by axaxs »

johnmw wrote: post #240
silisili wrote: post #203

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1. Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087418 2. Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042 3. Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775744 4. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072 5. Ask HN: W…

Thank you! Now I just wonder - did you use some command line magic to do this, or did you compose it manually? (no complaints if you did, but it would be interesting to know how to do that in a line of script). Anyway, thanks again.

Sure. I just did it quickly in Python, it was all of about three or four lines long. I've gotten a bit rusty in Python so when I see a small task I try to give it a go.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by dang »

krapp wrote: post #216
dang wrote: post #183

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Yikes, what a horror: either no new features, or complexity increases forever. Fortunately we don't live in that prison. And what a dystopian reason you give for removing things! The humane reason, of course, for removing features, is so you can add new ones while staying simple. I have always found this to be a deep part of, let's call it, healthy software development, at every level. If you remove things as well as…

>Yikes, what a horror: either no new features, or complexity increases forever. Fortunately we don't live in that prison. And fortunately, I didn't suggest that we do, or that features should never be removed... rather that removing a feature that people use because not enough of them use it doesn't make sense for a site like this. If you want more people to use new features, I think you need to put more effort than…

Totally agree that feature discovery is a problem.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by tlarkworthy »

dang wrote: post #235
surround wrote: post #229

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What about most favorited comments?

140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615 138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15603013 108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941 93 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13436420 86 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739 81 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11042400 81 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14948078 76 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6199544 65 https://news.ycombinator.…

Top comments dont work so well as there is no curated titles. The content is good but may not be relevant to the reader

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by KarimDaghari »

silisili wrote: post #203
baby wrote: post #199

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This needs links :( a gist perhaps?

1. Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087418 2. Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042 3. Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775744 4. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072 5. Ask HN: W…

Favorited, thanks!

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by otterCompile »

johnmw wrote: post #240
silisili wrote: post #203

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1. Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087418 2. Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042 3. Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775744 4. Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072 5. Ask HN: W…

Thank you! Now I just wonder - did you use some command line magic to do this, or did you compose it manually? (no complaints if you did, but it would be interesting to know how to do that in a line of script). Anyway, thanks again.

You can do this with Notepad++ and Block-Selection in like 1,2 Minutes:

- Paste the original list

- Block-Select (Alt + Pressed Mouse1) a block-line behind (trailing) all entries; I admit this step is hard to describe with words, but currently im unable to provide an image/video

- Paste "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id="

- Block-Select all ids from original list and paste it at the end

- You may be finished now or you can Regex-Replace " +" with " " to remove the long spaces between the link title and the link itself.

Block-Selection + Copy-Paste is amazingly fast for doing things like that.

Re: Most-favorited Hacker News posts

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Post by tlarkworthy »

tlarkworthy wrote: post #186
dang wrote: post #178

The OP says " The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. " How was "most active" defined? (Edit: oh I see - the users who post the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352688 ). It's an interesting list, and it never occurred to me that by counting the top favorites of different subsets of users you might get quite different interesting lists. I got curious about what…

I did normalize by number of favorites too, so each person had 1 vote shared over all their favorites. The idea that a person who only had one favourite was a really strong signal for that single link, whereas people who have lots of favorites are using it differently to what I want to select for. At some point I had a similar selection of Ask HN dominance. One problem with my data is I only grabbed the first page of…

I kind of liked the list without Tell/Ask HNs as well (it has the bash shell guide on it) so I made it a toggle.
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