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SHOW HN2019
494points
119comments
#33of 2,195 in 2019
Top 2%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 9 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Design: 2 for, 5 againstIdea: 2 for, 4 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Interesting, important exploratory research
From 1 comment
This is the kind of important explorative research that probably hasn't been done extensively or truthfully before, and yet shows deep insight into how the human mind works. It's…
hedgew on HN
Objections
Mobile site unusable, tree font too small
From 1 comment
Website is unfortunately unusable on mobile. The decided to disable zoom, and the right side of the tree font size is about 2px high. I've got good eyes but no amount of…
mfkp on HN
Thread is inappropriate for HN and unwelcoming
From 1 comment
The linked article contains a hell of a lot of stuff showing men thinking about women in ways that women would not like to be thought about (en masse at least). I'm completely…
Myrmornis on HN
Data is just a scrape, not sociologically insightful
From 1 comment
i don't know what this data set is showing sociologically. it's just a scrape of data and not very well presented. that said, nice project but go on and give it something else.
winningcontinue on HN
Requests
Graph of how subreddits repost between each other
From 1 comment
Would be interesting to see a graph of how things get reposted between subreddits. Also, I think you missed one quite relevant category: "perspectives". In many cases, it's just…
d33 on HN
Add perspective category
From 1 comment
Would be interesting to see a graph of how things get reposted between subreddits. Also, I think you missed one quite relevant category: "perspectives". In many cases, it's just…
d33 on HN
Questions
Where the subreddit data came from
From 2 comments
How did you get the URLs given the reddit history search limit? Was it from the big-query dataset?
Chris2048 on HNTo be honest, I have no idea. See https://github.com/EBazarov/nsfw_data_source_urls/ for the data source I used. There is a Reddit bulk downloader capable of downloading ~1000…
stared on HN
Alternatives named
Related subreddits sayit dataset
From 1 comment
There are such projects, and in fact - I mention two of them. If you want to obtain data, Related subreddits shared it (150GB or so): https://github.com/anvaka/sayit
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