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YC Top List

56 points by stijnm 17y ago

ErrantX 17y ago
The difference between Top Domains and Top Domains by points per submission is interesting.
stijnm 17y ago
This was submitted 561 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109654 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109654) but I think it deserves a repost. I have been lurking here a while and only just discovered it. There are some real gems (stories/discussions) to be explored this way. I started looking at 'Users with Most Points per Submission' and lost an hour before I knew it. Oh, and I guess if you want to rig the system, then 'Top Domains by Points per Submission' could be of help. Maybe some of you haven't seen this either so I thought I'd share.
- mlLK 17y ago
  >This was submitted 561 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109654 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109654) but I think it deserves a repost. I agree with this same sentiment, even if some would argue reposts are redundant or even a bug from some communities who aggregate news similarly, but when it comes down to it, I think reposts highlights a key attribute of 'what a we're all about' or 'what kind of products/stories describe us best', reposts serve as an interesting indicator of any community's (at least those communities who measure their users according to karma) core principles and values. If anything, Top Reposts is certainly worth iterating as an additional list for top.searchyc, although scraping it could be tricky
icey 17y ago
I would love to see a list of the most popular searches as well.
profquail 17y ago
I'm very curious about this...how did they collect their data? Did they spider/screen scrape HN, or were they able to get a data feed/dump? I've mentioned before that I'm interested in making some better algorithms for social news sites (I'm learning Scheme/Arc so that I can play around with news.arc); I think one very neat feature that could be added to social news sites is a sort of 'tracker' -- just like torrent trackers have a standard URL that clients can reach certain data at, it would be very cool for social news sites to decide on a data format whereby spiders and the like can get data feeds on stories, user "karma" and so forth. To expand on that, you could even normalize the scores from each site, and build a social news "karma aggregator" that monitors lots of these feeds, and ranks your username across all of the sites! EDIT: When I get up to speed on Scheme/Arc, I think I'm going to write a 'stats.arc' page to link into news.arc somehow. Is that a feature that anyone else thinks is useful? I'm talking detailed stats analysis/heuristics here, not just the 'top XX users' or whatever.
pg 17y ago
BTW, it's a bit misleading how many comments my essays have, because for a while I used links to HN comment threads as my "blog comments." Most of those comments aren't from regular HN readers.
- chengmi 17y ago
  http://top.searchyc.com/commented_sans_pg http://top.searchyc.com/commented_sans_pg
FreeRadical 17y ago
sivers is top of most lists
forgotmypasswd 17y ago
the median is better than the mean.
- ssn 17y ago
  This is true specially for long-tailed distributions.

56 points by stijnm 17y ago

The difference between Top Domains and Top Domains by points per submission is interesting.

This was submitted 561 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109654 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109654) but I think it deserves a repost. I have been lurking here a while and only just discovered it. There are some real gems (stories/discussions) to be explored this way. I started looking at 'Users with Most Points per Submission' and lost an hour before I knew it. Oh, and I guess if you want to rig the system, then 'Top Domains by Points per Submission' could be of help. Maybe some of you haven't seen this either so I thought I'd share.

mlLK 17y ago
>This was submitted 561 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109654 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109654) but I think it deserves a repost. I agree with this same sentiment, even if some would argue reposts are redundant or even a bug from some communities who aggregate news similarly, but when it comes down to it, I think reposts highlights a key attribute of 'what a we're all about' or 'what kind of products/stories describe us best', reposts serve as an interesting indicator of any community's (at least those communities who measure their users according to karma) core principles and values. If anything, Top Reposts is certainly worth iterating as an additional list for top.searchyc, although scraping it could be tricky

icey 17y ago

I would love to see a list of the most popular searches as well.

profquail 17y ago

I'm very curious about this...how did they collect their data? Did they spider/screen scrape HN, or were they able to get a data feed/dump? I've mentioned before that I'm interested in making some better algorithms for social news sites (I'm learning Scheme/Arc so that I can play around with news.arc); I think one very neat feature that could be added to social news sites is a sort of 'tracker' -- just like torrent trackers have a standard URL that clients can reach certain data at, it would be very cool for social news sites to decide on a data format whereby spiders and the like can get data feeds on stories, user "karma" and so forth. To expand on that, you could even normalize the scores from each site, and build a social news "karma aggregator" that monitors lots of these feeds, and ranks your username across all of the sites! EDIT: When I get up to speed on Scheme/Arc, I think I'm going to write a 'stats.arc' page to link into news.arc somehow. Is that a feature that anyone else thinks is useful? I'm talking detailed stats analysis/heuristics here, not just the 'top XX users' or whatever.

pg 17y ago

BTW, it's a bit misleading how many comments my essays have, because for a while I used links to HN comment threads as my "blog comments." Most of those comments aren't from regular HN readers.

chengmi 17y ago
http://top.searchyc.com/commented_sans_pg http://top.searchyc.com/commented_sans_pg

FreeRadical 17y ago

sivers is top of most lists

forgotmypasswd 17y ago

the median is better than the mean.

ssn 17y ago
This is true specially for long-tailed distributions.