Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018

Re:Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018 by ekphrasis on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:59AM (#18865697)

Very nice!

It's also interesting that it differs from this search[1] performed in HN's own search system.

[1] [pdf] with filtering on Past Year -> 4,422 hits.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%5Bpdf%5D&sort=byPopularity&pr...

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Re:Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018 by burtonator on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:04AM (#18865747)

Yea.. there would be more total hits for PDFs found on page 2 or page 3... which I didn't analyze. 500 I think is good enough. Enough reading already ;)

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Re:Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018 by ekphrasis on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:10AM (#18865817)

Sure, although the positions of the items in the answer sets at cutoff = 10 differ as well.

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Re:Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018 by burtonator on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:11AM (#18865832)

meaning the ranking? Algolia is probably using a different score algorithm. If I were designing it I would probably also factor in number of comments but I think it's fair to use number of upvotes.

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Re:Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018 by ekphrasis on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:24AM (#18865956)

I'm assuming that too. Just an observation. Very interesting work of you nonetheless!

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