Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

Post by astar » Sat, Apr 27, 2013, 1:34 PM UTC

Post by rquantz » Sat, Apr 27, 2013, 2:36 PM UTC

raimonds wrote: post #3

astar wrote: post #2

Hmm, this doesn't seem very accurate... Tron has 360 mentions: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tron&s... Some of them are split between "Tron" and "Tron: Legacy" so parsing this correctly isn't totally easy. And don't you think "Star Wars" would have been talked about here at least once?

Agree. This is just an index of links to IMDB from stories and comments. I couldn't come up with anything better/more accurate.

Post by raimonds » Sat, Apr 27, 2013, 2:43 PM UTC

rquantz wrote: post #4

raimonds wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. This is just an index of links to IMDB from stories and comments. I couldn't come up with anything better/more accurate.

Ah, that explains it. I couldn't believe Star Wars wasn't on the list. But nobody needs to link to Star Wars. It seems this only works for the middle tier of movie mentions. Anything that's really common currency will be missed.

Post by raimonds » Sat, Apr 27, 2013, 2:50 PM UTC

new299 wrote: post #7

raimonds wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. This is just an index of links to IMDB from stories and comments. I couldn't come up with anything better/more accurate.

I think that actually makes for a better list in this case, filters out all the things everyone has seen and leaves the ones that people might have missed (I'm certainly going to be trying to hunt a few of these down, thanks!)

Post by nolok » Sat, Apr 27, 2013, 3:02 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #5

a. We seem to have pretty bad (or at least predictable) taste in movies. b. The list is missing the two most important movies to HN: The Shawshank Redemption, which is about how you're never going to close funding until you give up on ever closing funding, and Ghostbusters, the greatest startup movie of all time.