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Re:Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read? by s-phi-nl on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @05:23PM (#11670771)
I trust you are aware of http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments ?
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Re:Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read? by alister on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @06:10PM (#11671091)
Is it possible to implement features similar to the above without being a ycombinator insider? Since upvotes aren't visible on comments, other than comments you made yourself, how could you calculate it? (Are the upvotes on comments available through an API for example?)
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Re:Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read? by cperciva on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @05:47PM (#11670930)
Yes, but that's just the highest scores -- which is a very noisy measurement given that it depends on how many people read the threads in question.
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