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Neat! I wonder what happened here:

https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/Show%20...

> #6 (0) 184 (1) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:08:54.566Z

> #6 (-1) 183 (149) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:06:55.781Z

> #7 (3) 34 (-148) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:04:56.732Z

> #4 (0) 182 (1) 19 (0) Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations 2020-01-02T17:00:54.504Z

Also, I find myself wishing for a "new comments since your last visit" like Reddit Gold gives you, or some way to "subscribe" to a node of comments and its replies. Anyone have any good solutions for this?

I made http://www.hnreplies.com/ which will email you when someone replies to one of your comments. It won't help with following specific threads of others' comments however.

I've been using HN for years but somehow only found out about HN replies fairly recently - just wanted to say thanks for such a useful tool!

HN Replies is great. I’m glad to see it’s back up; did it go down for a couple days over the holidays?

+1. Great tool: does exactly what it says on the tin. Thanks Dan!

This is perfect. Thank you!

For the "new comments since your last visit" I use a tampermonkey script. Last time I posted a link to it my post got flagged, but you can find it by going to Greasy Fork and searching "HN Comment Trees"

fixed selectors https://github.com/christian-fei/hacker-news-analytics/commi...

> "new comments since your last visit"

I made https://github.com/raszpl/hackahackernews for that purpose.

Weird to see posts like this that randomly spike in the number of votes

https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/Exploit...

This even has a plateau:

https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/Philoso...

fixed selectors https://github.com/christian-fei/hacker-news-analytics/commi...

I think it should identify posts by ID rather than by post title - it seems that reposts and dupes confuse it (for example, the current top post was posted a total of three times per HN search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., which causes the apparent history in this tool to bounce around a lot: https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/The%20P...)

i agree, it initially was like that, then i thought the experience would be better by using the title to identify a post.

Internally, represent the articles as IDs. This will eliminate duplicate posts, though not necessarily duplicate articles linked in posts. You can periodically fetch and cache the title pretty easily, since the ID is most of the (interesting characters in the) URL for the page.

Slightly related, but has anyone made an automated fuzzy, dupe detector for posts or topics? I keep thinking it would be nice to browse HN using an explicit graph constructed with some NLP clustering, instead of an implicit graph created by links in the comments.

You made me remember about this project: https://hackernewsbooks.com/ Despite it is not related to clustering I think it is a smart idea that offers a complete different view of HN

could be integrated, why not!

I've frequently wanted an 'evocative' score that would provide a metric for the ratio of up vs. down votes among the comments.

What's more contentious, 'Tabs vs. Spaces', or, 'No Go, Python'.

http://hnrankings.info/ does a pretty good job about this as well, though its individual post viewing capabilities are limited.

Interesting, is there a reason you are sending the data to the client so regularly? Is that being triggered every time something changes?

Also how are you liking SSE? I've played with WS but never SSE.

It just crashed, might have to do with being on the front page?

Probably. It is still down.

Error 521 Ray ID: 54efe731ff17c7b1 • 2020-01-02 21:42:29 UTC Web server is down

https://archive.md/nuWkL

I'm looking forward to the next Apple or nuclear energy post.

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