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SHOW HN2010
92points
21comments
#14of 370 in 2010
Top 4%of 2010 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Design: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 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
Informative analysis with good write-up
From 2 comments
Nice work, very informative. This is an issue that I feel has the potential to kill HN in the long run. It is steadily growing closer and closer to being impossible to hit the…
pmichaud on HNAnother great write-up! As a side note, I missed your juggling talk at the recent HN London meetup. Is there a video available for it?
scorchin on HN
Objections
Graph colours and axes are not clearly labelled
From 2 comments
Nifty, but the graphs need to be labelled better; it's not always clear what exactly the colours mean or what is being graphed.
blahedo on HN``` The chart for the weekend specifically has just a few red points, which has shifted the range. Removing them would make the range better, but that's not really worth the…
sesqu on HN
Requests
Make the underlying data available
From 1 comment
Is the data available? I saw the note at the end of the post, but there doesn't seem to be a link associated with it.
Anon84 on HN
Questions
How many submissions does HN get per day?
From 2 comments
Semi-related question: So how many submissions is HN getting each day these days?
brandnewlow on HNYou can work that out. Start from http://news.ycombinator.com/newest go to the bottom of the page and click on "More" until one of the entries says "1 day ago", and there you…
DupDetector on HN