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Nothing like a bunch of comments tearing apart a website built by people who, presumably, learned to code a few months ago and threw it together over the course of a few weeks. Yeah, it has a few issues, but it's significantly better than the first things I ever built and sent off to the world. Keep it classy, HN.
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It's much harder to get data from Hacker News, as HN doesn't have a public API (and HNSearch's API limits make it infeasable)
>(and HNSearch's API limits make it infeasable) I searched around and couldn't find information on API limits. Are these documented or just found via experiencing them? The Hacker News karma tracker posted this past January seems to be able to get the information that would be necessary for writing something like this.
You can take a snapshot of the Front Page / New Posts every so often a la [2], but it's limited per the robots.txt. It's possible, but more time intensive (as in the linked post)
[1]: http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=med...
> "Dogs" occurs more times in titles in r/aww than "cats" or "kittens" That can be a fact. > Despite their internet popularity cats are not submitted nearly as many times on this cuddly SubReddit. Or dogs are rare enough that they're worth naming, because cats are default. Seriously, run whatever calculations you want, but be careful about what conclusions you draw from the numbers.
Good point. We like to stir the pot a bit though.
Nothing like a bunch of comments tearing apart a website built by people who, presumably, learned to code a few months ago and threw it together over the course of a few weeks. Yeah, it has a few issues, but it's significantly better than the first things I ever built and sent off to the world. Keep it classy, HN.
What's the point in submitting this to HN if not to get feedback?
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>(and HNSearch's API limits make it infeasable) I searched around and couldn't find information on API limits. Are these documented or just found via experiencing them? The Hacker News karma tracker posted this past January seems to be able to get the information that would be necessary for writing something like this.
HNSearch has a limitation of 1000 maximum results returned (see [1]). You can take a snapshot of the Front Page / New Posts every so often a la [2], but it's limited per the robots.txt. It's possible, but more time intensive (as in the linked post) [1]: http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=med... [2]: http://mayank.lahiri.me/writing/hackernews/index.html
Based on other comments on this post, it looks like HNSearch and Reddit APIs have the same limitations, so doing something like this should be feasible for Hacker News. Also, another post indicates that the data for Reddit was done with only single 1000-limit queries, so the time-intensive method shouldn't be needed to produce equivalent results (although it could provide more accurate results.)
Finally, for those looking for something like this for Hacker News right now, check out these sites:
http://www.hntrends.com/, http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/, Hacker News hiring trends (https://github.com/adamw523/hackernewshires)
Nothing like a bunch of comments tearing apart a website built by people who, presumably, learned to code a few months ago and threw it together over the course of a few weeks. Yeah, it has a few issues, but it's significantly better than the first things I ever built and sent off to the world. Keep it classy, HN.
It's fundamentally horrible. The whole design approach is horrible. It's the contemporary equivalent of GeoCities, just using more recent but equally mindless design cliches. In fact, it's so horrible it makes PowerPoint look good.
Nothing like a bunch of comments tearing apart a website built by people who, presumably, learned to code a few months ago and threw it together over the course of a few weeks. Yeah, it has a few issues, but it's significantly better than the first things I ever built and sent off to the world. Keep it classy, HN.
What's the point in submitting this to HN if not to get feedback?
Nothing like a bunch of comments tearing apart a website built by people who, presumably, learned to code a few months ago and threw it together over the course of a few weeks. Yeah, it has a few issues, but it's significantly better than the first things I ever built and sent off to the world. Keep it classy, HN.
It's fundamentally horrible. The whole design approach is horrible. It's the contemporary equivalent of GeoCities, just using more recent but equally mindless design cliches. In fact, it's so horrible it makes PowerPoint look good.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's fundamentally horrible. The whole design approach is horrible. It's the contemporary equivalent of GeoCities, just using more recent but equally mindless design cliches. In fact, it's so horrible it makes PowerPoint look good.
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