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Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by dang »

thatguyagain wrote: post #56
dang wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is a hundred times bigger. It's not just that we aren't in their league...our league is not in their league. So the comparison is a little embarrassing. It's hard to count active users because you have to define them in order to count them, and we make a point of not tracking people that much. We can count accounts and unique IPs, and that's about it. But it's basically about 5M readers a month, give or take,…

Sounds like the size of a large sub reddit.

We could also compare them this way: these days, HN averages 1500 submissions and 10000 comments (or so) per day. Does anyone with Reddit datamining fu know what percentile that would be for a subreddit? How many such subreddits are there? What are some examples?

Of course there are assumptions involved in mapping that to userbase size or whatever, but it would still be interesting.

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by dang »

thunderbong wrote: post #93
dang wrote: post #5

Ok, since this is getting attention, I'll explain. Launch HN posts for YC startups are one of three formal things that HN does for YC ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... ). The others are job ads for YC startups, and orange usernames for YC alumni—but only when displayed to other YC alumni, which always generates "why is my username not orange" emails. But I digress. Launch HNs are like…

Dang, Yours are the only comments I always read. Thanks for all the stuff you do. Wouldn't have thought you coded too! That's good to know. I've also had to do tests in production occasionally and hope nobody notices! Good that your code wasn't tied up to the number of upvotes, otherwise you would have a different problem on you hands!

I believe that it has been important to HN's evolution that the (full-time) moderators and programmers have always been the same people, and that we should preserve that invariant.

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by bor0 »

dang wrote: post #99
bor0 wrote: post #71

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> we wouldn't want to go full Haskell and avoid success at all costs Can you elaborate on that statement? To me, it implies that going with Haskell avoids success, but I might be missing something. If that really is the implication, can you explain?

Oh! That's the Haskell motto: https://www.google.com/search?q=haskell+%22avoid+success+at+... . I'd never troll so hard as to make something like that up, only just enough to quote it. I love it as a perfectly-cut gem of self-deprecating humor. It has had different interpretations over the years. Simon Peyton Jones described its origins here: https://books.google.com/books?id=2kMIqdfyT8kC&pg=PA283&lpg=... . But that…

TIL about most of this. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

#104

Post by pvg »

dang wrote: post #101
thatguyagain wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like the size of a large sub reddit.

We could also compare them this way: these days, HN averages 1500 submissions and 10000 comments (or so) per day. Does anyone with Reddit datamining fu know what percentile that would be for a subreddit? How many such subreddits are there? What are some examples? Of course there are assumptions involved in mapping that to userbase size or whatever, but it would still be interesting.

there are assumptions involved in mapping that to userbase size

I think these assumptions are the trickier/error-barriest ones. The other, more directly comparable stats suggest reddit is more than 100x bigger than HN. The comment and post numbers here

https://redditblog.com/2019/12/04/reddits-2019-year-in-revie...

make it look like something closer to 500x-ish, give or take.

eyeballing (the purest ancient datamining fu technique) this

https://subredditstats.com/

puts HN somewhere in the 15th-to-20th-ish top subreddit category by post and comment activity.

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

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Post by DonHopkins »

mothsonasloth wrote: post #29
DonHopkins wrote: post #20

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Needs more salty Russian Literature references!

This is new to me, is there a list of these quotes you can get?

In the words of the great Netochka Nezvanova:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010726003346/http://membank.or...

        The beauty of a body, any body is both its singular uniqueness as
        a whole and its existence as a swarming chaotic symphony of smaller
        worlds; of organs and systems, muscles, bones and organs
        made up of molecules, of atoms and so on down to the tinniest
        particle. A world its own and within it multiple smaller
        worlds; the cardiovascular world, the auricular world
        moving out from the body, a larger body or world is created by 
        that body and so many others orbiting in a confined space and time
        i.e. a city, a country, a planet, etc.

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    -  konzp!rass!_ov-ekualz

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Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

#106

Post by DonHopkins »

gargs wrote: post #27
dang wrote: post #16

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I picked it because (1) it's my first name plus surname initial; (2) it was my email address at my first job; and (3) it's what you say when you make a mistake—so yup, you guessed it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513120

Whoa! I love the second link! Is there an orchestrated horizontally-scaled secure decentralized web service I could use to bookmark all the dang cartoons?!

The best one I remembered from being taped to my mom's fridge, but I just couldn't dig up, was of a big dejected bird standing in front of the open refrigerator, saying:

"Dang! Somebody ate the middle out of the daddy longlegs."

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