Hacker News Reader

This is a little experiment I put together out of curiosity.

The repo can be found here: https://github.com/BDiehr/briandiehr

The task which grabs the posts to analyze is found here: https://github.com/BDiehr/briandiehr/blob/master/server/src/...

I thought the results were interesting, though I am not confident enough to make any statements based on the results besides that it appears many people post their post on both simultaneously, and /r/programming appears to have a larger group of people submitting content.

Awesome project. I use content from both on http://serializer.io and have often wondered which was first most often. I'd thought it would be the other way around.

Personally find HN to have more interesting discussions.

Thanks! I personally think that Hacker News has much more level headed discussion than /r/programming as well, which at the end of the day, is the most important aspect of a community (as opposed to having top links quicker)

Seems to be broken, i only see NaN where there should be numbers e.g. Reddit (NaN%) | HackerNews (NaN%)

Thanks for the heads up - unsure what happened there. Appears to be working now though

Show HN: HackerNews vs. /r/Programming – A Live Analysis of Top Posts