Inflation-adjusted Hacker News
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How HN took it
5 positive, 29 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Idea: 4 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting analysis of how points inflate over time
From 3 comments
Nice and interesting analysis. Thank you for sharing. I now think HN and Reddit and others should consider inflation by default when you search for top posts of all time for…
ammar_x on HNVery nice realization of the idea. The extension is a sweet perk. I was thinking about something like this some time ago. I also wonder how it compares with comment count per…
hawski on HNBrilliant work. And it makes me think - we produce tools, that are part of two phase spaces - the idea and the knowledge of how to create it. Firstly I simply would not have…
lifeisstillgood on HN
Useful idea for comparing top posts across years
From 3 comments
This is cool, and it would be fun to see top stories by year, and top Show HNs by year. I posted a Show HN [1] when I was new-ish here, and I didn't realize how unusually…
gnicholas on HNI'd love to see a list of top stories of all time - where the ranking was inflation adjusted!
etaioinshrdlu on HNI'd be interested to see a "top of all time by adjusted score" list of posts.
Scene_Cast2 on HN
Objections
Points are not a fixed unit; the front page is now far more competitive
From 2 comments
The other consideration is that the traffic (and submissions) have grown likely 50x plus but the front page still only has 30 slots, and so the 'needle eye' is a lot smaller. One…
jkuria on HNThe biggest issue is that stories posted by people with high karma hit the front page even if they're off topic/dupes/garbage, while good new submissions often fail to get much…
nprateem on HN
A 1-point post shows as 2 points, which looks wrong
From 1 comment
All 1 point show as 2 points. Shouldn't those be 1 point regardless of date since it's the base and it means some specific post had no upvotes?
forgotpwd16 on HN
Chrome extension is only available as a direct download
From 1 comment
> The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome. Unfortunately the extension is only available as a direct download for Chrome because I didn't bother paying Google money to…
wheybags on HN
Requests
Inflation-adjusted top stories of all time list
From 3 comments
I'd love to see a list of top stories of all time - where the ranking was inflation adjusted!
etaioinshrdlu on HNSeems like it would be interesting to see an inflation-adjusted top 100 stories of all time.
MattRix on HNI'd be interested to see a "top of all time by adjusted score" list of posts.
Scene_Cast2 on HN
Sort top posts by year
From 2 comments
There's a similar issue on reddit. For a growing sub (which most interesting subs are) sorting by top of all time and top of this year is the same thing. I wish there were a way…
eatonphil on HNThis is cool, and it would be fun to see top stories by year, and top Show HNs by year. I posted a Show HN [1] when I was new-ish here, and I didn't realize how unusually…
gnicholas on HN
Fixed reference date instead of doubling points
From 1 comment
Mapping the current points would be more interesting to me in practice. Right now, when you install the extension and read the frontpage you just see the points doubled, which is…
onli on HN
Questions
How sensitive are results to using the top 100 stories per day
From 1 comment
> It's basically the average point count of the top 100 stories of each day. How sensitive are the results to changing 100? Using a smaller number would be more accurate for the…
crackercrews on HN
How closely does this match overall HN traffic
From 1 comment
I'm curious how closely this would match overall HN traffic -- if only very loosely, or if almost pixel-for-pixel. Only @dang could tell us! (It's not at all obvious to me that…
crazygringo on HN
Alternatives named
hnrss.org feed filtering by points and comments
From 1 comment
FYI: If you read Hacker News via RSS, check out https://hnrss.org/ , which allows you to filter the feed by points/comments. e.g. https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=100&comments=25
shaicoleman on HN
Algolia HN search
From 1 comment
This is great. I was suggesting a similar feature for search HN literally only a couple of weeks ago: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues/207 Looking forward to using!
nomilk on HN