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by vrepsys • 13 years ago

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petenixey• 13 years ago

This is super-interesting, thank you for posting. Where did you originally get the data from to do this analysis? Have you been harvesting it yourself?

vrepsys• 13 years ago

Thanks. I scraped the data from https://www.hnsearch.com/. They have a very nice REST API.

dmix• 13 years ago

Looks like a few of the top posters stopped using HN as much >2011. Are there some public traffic stats for HN? I'm curious if this was around the time when HN became flooded with new users. The quality has somewhat declined since then (as with all communities).

Although, tptacek is still an HN machine.

tptacek• 13 years ago

Yeah that's really embarrassing.

samspenc• 13 years ago

Waiting to see a comment from tptacek! :)

ekrsulov• 13 years ago

See kibana3 dashboard http://hnk.aws.af.cm/index.html , data from hckrnews.com data, elasticsearch qbox.io, hosting in appfog.

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