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SHOW HN2020
21points
9comments
#1,649of 3,028 in 2020
Top 55%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful way to discover unique PDFs
From 1 comment
I computed this list of top PDFs using the Internet Archive data. Basically it crawls the front page of HN and finds any .pdf link, records the number of upvotes, then sorts by…
burtonator on HN
Objections
Vote counts snapshot may be skewed by missing hourly data
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I take the max in a 24 hour period. I don't always have snapshots for all hours though so there might be some skew
burtonator on HN
Questions
Why not use the built-in HN archives
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is there a reason why you did not use the built in HN archives? https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-01-23
simlevesque on HN
How are changing vote numbers handled
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> it crawls the front page of HN and finds any .pdf link, records the number of upvotes, then sorts by score How do you deal with the numbers changing over time?
inetknght on HN
Alternatives named
HN newspapers archive site
From 1 comment
There's also http://www.hackernewspapers.com/
jayaram on HN
Built-in HN front page archive
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is there a reason why you did not use the built in HN archives? https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-01-23
simlevesque on HN