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Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023

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Re: Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023

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jonchurch_ wrote: post #6
RonnieOwnsLexus wrote: post #4

Am I reading the new users graph correctly ? Hackernews got 64K new users in 2023? What is the DAU/MAU If anyone knows

It says the number is a measure of users who posted their first comment or submission in 2023. So that, at least, is the correct way to read the graph. That is interesting! Especially considering the true number of signups would be higher based on users who signed up but have never posted anything. Although we dont know how many are spam accounts that signed up, posted, and got banned.

> It says the number is a measure of users who posted their first comment or submission in 2023.

This number should exclude bots users that had their first posts or comments flagged or removed, i.e. bots and spammers. I'd guess that there'd be a lot of these.

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Post by curtisblaine »

xnx wrote: post #8
jacurtis wrote: post #7

Was anyone else shocked to be reminded that a few of these top stories happened in 2023 and not years earlier? I thought the Silicon Valley Bank failure was 2022. It feels like so long ago. Crazy how long 2023 felt like (at least for me). Also interesting is that the number of Twitter posts were cut almost in half this year. Despite what a certain CEO claims, all indicators seem to affirm that the popularity of that…

Creator here. I had forgotten all about the bank collapse/contagion week until I put this together. I remember a lot of discussion around if the actions were necessary, or if it amounted to a bailout. By one measure, it's a great thing that SVB seems like a distant memory and not an ongoing concern. When I first saw that twitter.com stories drop off like that, I thought it might be because of links going to nitter or…

Can't it be because of links to x.com?

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023

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Post by appplication »

3abiton wrote: post #15
RonnieOwnsLexus wrote: post #4

Am I reading the new users graph correctly ? Hackernews got 64K new users in 2023? What is the DAU/MAU If anyone knows

I think the reddit exodus diverted lots of redditors to HN.

I’m a Reddit refugee. I was meaning to quit for a while, the shenanigans that went down made it easier.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Year in Review: 2023

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Post by xnx »

mrtimo wrote: post #18

where can i download the data behind this?

You just need to make 38 million requests to the Firebase API document here https://github.com/HackerNews/API. :-)

I actually made many more than that because I screwed up a few times. Might clean up the compiled data and put it on Kaggle (GitHub? Torrent?), or anywhere else if people have suggestions.

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