SearchYC Presents: Best of Hacker News
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I've always been afraid to contribute for fear that others have posted an article I encountered. Fear no more! Hello, new homepage.
<cynicism>Isn't that what 99% of all comments on the web are?</cynicism>
Top Points per Submission
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| username | pts | ct | avg |
+-------------+------+----+---------+
| dwaters | 95 | 1 | 95.0000 |
| keesj | 78 | 1 | 78.0000 |
| brl | 122 | 2 | 61.0000 |
| a-kill-ease | 60 | 1 | 60.0000 |
| zombo | 58 | 1 | 58.0000 |
| markovich | 58 | 1 | 58.0000 |
| fresno | 55 | 1 | 55.0000 |
| jdale27 | 53 | 1 | 53.0000 |
| qwertyy | 48 | 1 | 48.0000 |
| jsomers | 48 | 1 | 48.0000 |
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Top Points per Comment
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| username | pts | ct | avg |
+------------+------+----+---------+
| hazchem | 37 | 1 | 37.0000 |
| capablanca | 36 | 1 | 36.0000 |
| jdrake3 | 24 | 1 | 24.0000 |
| juanjose | 24 | 1 | 24.0000 |
| cetaganda | 41 | 2 | 20.5000 |
| cysh | 19 | 1 | 19.0000 |
| chime | 17 | 1 | 17.0000 |
| zamfi | 17 | 1 | 17.0000 |
| kilik | 17 | 1 | 17.0000 |
| loumf | 15 | 1 | 15.0000 |
+------------+------+----+---------+What would be really cool is if you opened up a simple API or just the raw data so we could go wild with it :)
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| Xichekolas | pts | ct | avg |
+-------------+------+-----+--------+
| Submissions | 64 | 7 | 9.1429 |
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| Comments | 497 | 199 | 2.4975 |
+-------------+------+-----+--------+Today we're launching another feature of SearchYC: Top Lists. Using our index of Hacker News threads and comments, we've compiled lists of the most interesting items to date.
So what did we find? Sticking true to the Web 2.0 mentality, TechCrunch articles were the most submitted, by far. Other Silicon Valley favorites such as Valleywag, Mashable, and Wired also made it to the top.
As for top users, nickb gets the honor with more than 1900 submissions while pg has more than 2000 comments. Go ahead and take a look for yourself, and see if you can find other trends in Hacker News activity.
Having read a bit about the research in networks and graph theory that has been done over the last few years I think that submissions, activity of users and karma points follow a powerlaw. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law)
Seems like you have the numbers to confirm whether this is true or not.
It would be really interesting to see...
Would be good with more data though. Are the next 200 submitters available ?
So is the search algorithm implemented in arc ? ;-)