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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by applecrazy on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:04PM (#16410684)
Somebody should mine the data and calculate year-over-year inflation rate, we have a mini economy on our hands! :)
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by Kluny on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:50PM (#16410828)
20 upvotes got me on the front page one time. It was the most views I've ever had on my blog. It got me a job interview! Nothing came of it, but still a wild ride.
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by applecrazy on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:57PM (#16410848)
I was once on the front page too, but sadly, no HS internship or job of any kind came out of it :(
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by ximeng on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:44PM (#16410809)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2120887 my estimate was 200% a long time ago
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by chipperyman573 on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:22PM (#16410727)
You wouldn't even need to mine it - https://github.com/HackerNews/API
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by fhoffa on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:53PM (#16410838)
Even easier: All Hacker News posts are ready to be analyzed in BigQuery.

- https://medium.com/@hoffa/hacker-news-on-bigquery-now-with-d...

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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by applecrazy on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:42PM (#16410799)
Sorry, I meant analyze. I actually am writing a blog post right now on this (this thread was very inspiring). Should be up in a day or two at https://applecrazy.github.io/blog
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by Majora320 on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:52PM (#16410830)
Good luck downloading 16 million records...
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by kuschku on Monday February 19, 2018 @03:45PM (#16415598)
Why? 16 million isn’t much, maybe 10 to 20 gigabyte if compressed.

I’ve seen IRC bouncers that have more messages stored for a single user (270 million, in fact).

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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by minimaxir on Monday February 19, 2018 @12:26AM (#16410944)
You could do that with the Algolia API: https://github.com/minimaxir/get-all-hacker-news-submissions...

But as noted, BigQuery is more pragmatic.

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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by abhishekjha on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @12:09AM (#16427008)
I have a script running on aws right now.
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