However, people-oriented media are unbearable for me. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook.. All are full of people who want to build a reputation, and even though everything about them are different superficially, they all feel very similar.
On one extreme there's Instagram where that's the main currency, but even on Twitter (which is supposedly about what you write), where you just have the one profile photo/maybe occasional other pictures, you can see it draw disproportionate attention and skew content. Naturally Twitter then inserts these accounts that draw lots of engagement into the feeds of everyone else so they're not possible to easily avoid.
dang (obviously), WalterBright (D, C++), pc (Stripe), steveklabnik (Rust), antirez (Redis), jedberg (Reddit), gwern (gwern!), burntsushi (rg), patio11, fossuser, kube-system, api, sillysaurusx, smoldesu, dragontamer, ethbr0, and our favorite, hnthrow(away)?.*
My experience is generally the same. I read for content. If I’m interested, I might click a profile link to see how long user has been on the site or if they have a personal site.
Thanks for putting this together, interesting to see the links of HNer's with a lot of karma.
Lots of other good suggestions as to what to do with this dataset, but I think it'd be fun to see a collection of the highest ranked comments by each user, perhaps with a minimum length. It'd be a way to get a collection of well thought out "essays" on different topics by use.
We all have a scarcity of time on this planet, and I'm convinced that it's the duty of the excellent to (to quote William and Theodore from the 80s movie) "be excellent".
Very different to other forums I use. Fine with me.
And myself of course.
That's about all I could come up with on the spot.
The computer science content behind UI is pretty similar to that of build systems, particularly incremental computation and trying to derive dependency graphs, and [2] is a seminal paper on that topic.
If other people have suggestions I'd like to hear them.
[1]: https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~chong/pubs/pldi13-elm.pdf
[2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...
And most karma per comment if you filter out "politics" (although that is hard and vague) ?
How many high karma users are inactive? pg (creator of the site) seems to be one: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
FWIW here is the leaderboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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Also my impression is that this list is overwhelmingly male, although I guess that's not too surprising
Somewhere down the line, I believe dang hid it, but I forget the reason why.
most of the internet is overwhelmingly male, and tech-related places even more so.
I’m curious how many of these websites are active, any idea?
I really only post on https://austingwalters.com but have all my side projects listed
I do recognise a good chunk of the top 30 or so names though
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom" href="/atom/everything/">
Added to the profile now. Maybe they get me next time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=templeos https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos
Posted a lot but had fairly meagre karma.
Some background about him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112887
reddit used to have a 'sort by most controversial' (iirc just downs plus ups) that bubbled the most interesting comments to the top, apparently they were going for types of users who weren't into that though
Purusing these personel pages are fun. I also have an idle curiosity if these top accounts get karma mainly from comments or submits? As in are comments or stories are the driving portion of the HN karma system?
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
(that is, you can see the most-upvoted comments, but you do see the count of upvotes)
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
from my humble experience, both. Submits can get a lot more karma if you make it to the front page, but that's much harder than getting regular karma through regular comments.
As others said it’s probably because the link in his bio is missing http:// or something like that.
I'll do that and update!
If I remember correctly, they're now supposed to contact each person individually, explain why they're storing their data, and obtain their consent.
In practice, the chances of someone making a complaint and the issue being enforced are extremely low.
For example: https://iapp.org/news/a/publicly-available-data-under-gdpr-m...
Also Article 9 seems to be restricted to non-processable data about sensitive matters.
Anyhow, it's definitely a good example of how convoluted the language around GDPR can get, and how much of a minefield it is to try to follow it.
The usual caveat applies, I'm not a lawyer.
Interesting backgrounds, and also the spread between those rankings. I guess this is also good motivation to finally finish my draft blog posts.
Lesson: Go ahead and just post your draft blog posts.
> Downloaded all HN users from BigQuery
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This is is a filtered out list for users who have a personal/company website listed in their About section.
Here are the posts from my own site that HN liked the most:
1) Brutality of Life Reading List, 93 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24458522
2) Thriverism, 21 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24330086
Edit: didn’t like dropping this without a reference, so dug one up:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937472
Turns out it’s both to prevent flamewars and also foster curiosity more.
However, I love seeing tech hard-hitters throw in a message or two and who I see have low karma. Or people who have been here for ages and just quietly do their thing. Karma probably helped move it forward (great guide of quality from a high level) but it’s come at a cost. When people start to compete for the karma and not to build the community, we lose something. PaulG, for one.
I had this fantasy that there’s a YC-only version that rhymes with the public HN.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/
https://www.accelerando.org/ (Problem with certificate?)
- He once moaned that I had described the Land Registry as a UK institution rather than an England and Wales one. That’s the last time I borrow one of your books from a public library, Charles! :)
https://www.landcommission.gov.scot/our-work/ownership/scale...
I wonder if simply bolding the username, or having it on its own line, or some other subtle emphasis would be enough to lift usernames in our awareness.
You want to be rich or you want to be famous. Never both.
Out [2]: 'https://github.com/crisdosyago<p>cris@dosycorp.com'
It looks like your about changed more recently than my BQ data pull?
I've been using this[0] Python library which seemed good enough for my needs in some scraping project.
And that's in between running a company, tons of hobbies, kids and so on...
But to be fair, I sleep way too little.
I mean, mine is pretty random but has somewhat become routine. I come to Hackernews, browser, and read as part of my email reading routine. Then, before I retire for the day and sleep, I submit the articles I read during the day which I believe are interesting. The next morning, some of them usually sip through, and I see them on the front pages. The best cases I have seen so far are four stories amongst the top 30 at an instant.
Hackernews is perhaps the last frontier of subtle tech fun these days, without the overcrowded cheesy slapstick jokes around the Internet.
I just finished a short comic for a Webtoons contest; engagement is a significant part of how they’re gonna judge it, so if you like my stuff then check it out (2) and leave a nice comment to increase my chances of getting a $5-50k prize. I don’t make anything near FAANG money so even the low end would make a big difference in my finances. :)
1: http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/ 2: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-sins-of-chloe-fran...
What's sort of disappointing is that it seems I'm the only one there to have an .onion address!
Very interesting blogs though!