Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
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#2Very nice, I like the clean design. One suggestion: auto-loading when you hit the bottom of the page.
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#3Do the users get to submit updates to the descriptions? Do they get to delete their descriptions if they would rather not be listed? Is there are a particular reason why some users on the current Hacker News leaderboard
http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
appear not to be on your interesting and informative site?
After edit: I see at the bottom of the display it says "powered by HNSearch API," which makes me wonder why the listing wouldn't be exhaustive and perfectly ordered by karma. Please let us know what technical (and social) trade-offs you are encountering in this interesting project.
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#4so, what are the criteria for the list? doesn't quite correlate with the leaders list. is it based on comment only score?
Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
#5Do the users get to submit updates to the descriptions? Do they get to delete their descriptions if they would rather not be listed? Is there are a particular reason why some users on the current Hacker News leaderboard http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders appear not to be on your interesting and informative site? After edit: I see at the bottom of the display it says "powered by HNSearch API," which makes me wonder w…
I only see the leaders link on the top bar when I am in the leaders page. There are other magic pages like new poll. Is there some comprehensive list?
Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
#6Do the users get to submit updates to the descriptions? Do they get to delete their descriptions if they would rather not be listed? Is there are a particular reason why some users on the current Hacker News leaderboard http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders appear not to be on your interesting and informative site? After edit: I see at the bottom of the display it says "powered by HNSearch API," which makes me wonder w…
Hi. Thanks for noticing. The reason is that standard Hacker News profiles don't have photos or real names. Therefore I focused on the 1000 Hacker News profiles that have such data (by stating their twitter profiles).
Notice that HNSearch API limits the amount of responses to 1000, but this has nothing to do with the current limit (you can hack this limit by sorting ascending and descending). But the limit was not reached, so I did not need to cheat.
Twitter profiles were focused as not many people mention their github/facebook/stackoverflow profiles.
The reason why the list is similar to the leaderboard is because data is sorted by who has the most karma.
Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News
#7Do the users get to submit updates to the descriptions? Do they get to delete their descriptions if they would rather not be listed? Is there are a particular reason why some users on the current Hacker News leaderboard http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders appear not to be on your interesting and informative site? After edit: I see at the bottom of the display it says "powered by HNSearch API," which makes me wonder w…
I only see the leaders link on the top bar when I am in the leaders page. There are other magic pages like new poll. Is there some comprehensive list?
Yes - on the bottom of the page you have a link to Lists - http://news.ycombinator.com/lists
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#8so, what are the criteria for the list? doesn't quite correlate with the leaders list. is it based on comment only score?
Look above for more info on how the list was crafted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3117846
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#9Shouldn't you filter the ones that don't have a real photo? Seeing the photo of the person makes them seem real and personable...those pure avatar ones to me feels like one is just looking at the HN username.
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#10I get a blank page for some reason, even after enabling everything with NoScript.