Tusharmagar

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I built this as part of a hackathon after analyzing Hacker News data from 2020–2025. While digging through the data, I noticed a few patterns around front-page posts that I didn’t expect, so I thought I’d share them here!One thing that stood out is how misleading title-based predictions can be.Most attempts to predict HN success rely heavily on the title. The problem is that we’re missing a...

https://app.hex.tech/%22https://app.hex.tech/virtual-hackathon/app/Hacker-News-Demystified-032DXkOndTJkiwAAO1fyX5%22

I built this for a hackathon after analyzing Hacker News data from 2020–2025, and some of the patterns around front-page posts were more interesting than I expected, so I’m sharing it here.A couple of notable data points: the highest-upvoted post in this period was about Sam Altman being fired from OpenAI (5,000+ upvotes), and weekends turned out to be a surprisingly good time to post!Following...