This is the first time I have wished Hacker News showed upvotes. They have got to be over 100 with that right?

You can model it.

- Get upvote snapshots of all top-level comments' authors in this thread. Take repeated measurements at relatively low time resolution. Also compare this to any other comments they may be making (have a model of the type of comment: follow-ups that are deeply nested probably have a lower upvote velocity)

- Find archive.org snapshots of OP as well as the authors of all other upvoted comment threads. Find the delta from then to now. Some authors will have recent data.

- For a better model, construct historical graphs of all authors using these methods and use it to iteratively adjust.

- Make sure you understand the ranking algorithm and that it is reflected in your model.

Nontrivial, but could be a fun exercise.

And of course you could store the results on Postgresql!!

The comment currently tops the "best comments" list:

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

Archived:

http://web.archive.org/web/20191016003251/https://news.ycomb...

Checkout compilerworks.com they work on exactly this problem.

@xzor :+1: for the suggestion/recommendation

We also have a solution: https://www.jooq.org/translate/