I hang out here a lot too but not in all the discussions. If someone participates only or mainly in stories about VC fundings and such I may never see his or her name, while I'll probably see the name of someone who participates less but does so in technical discussions more :).
I was thinking it would be nice to see when the user last posted, along with their karma. I see a lot of names I recognise but haven’t seen around for a while.
That'd explain some of the holes mentioned in these comments. I think you just want to match any "word" containing ".[valid TLD]" and then exclude invalid URLs ("@" in first part indicating email, etc).
I've been using this[0] Python library which seemed good enough for my needs in some scraping project.
I actually tried to do that about two years ago, and ran out of steam about 20% of the way through. It was a lot. Even this shorten list took a surprising amount of time!
Alan watts would respond “ who are you kidding, yourself? You the ego, the one driving your needs?, why can’t yourself have both. Don’t kid yourself man”.
I checked your submissions and you have three from twitter. They said they filtered out users with too many Twitter submissions. I really don't see the problem with Twitter submissions. Sometimes people Tweet interesting things with links in the Tweet.
I think they mean they filtered out users that only had links to their Twitter account in their bio (as opposed to a personal site or something) - not that they filtered them because they submit Twitter threads.
As others said it’s probably because the link in his bio is missing http:// or something like that.
Oh I see, it's in the bio. I thought they were looking at submission history. I don't understand why having Twitter in your bio makes you uninteresting
The underlying intent was to look for new/different websites. Twitter is fine, but I wanted to track down people's personal sites, hobby projects, etc.
This prompted me to look. Could not find too much though I found this post suggesting that it can go negative.
I would assume at a certain point your account would be banned so maybe there is a cap. Personally I would be surprised if these folks had websites.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179609
as mentioned, tdavis certainly deserves recognition on that front
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
You can still sort by controversial on reddit. In my experience the comments it bubbles to the top aren't very interesting, but mostly cheap shots. Like everything else about reddit, this probably depends on the subreddit.
Yes! Looks like I'll only need to be on HN for another 21 years to become HN famous! ;)
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?
Most, but not all, people on the leaderboard are prolific commenters. I have heard (but cannot confirm personally :P) that posting a lot of interesting content can get you karma pretty quickly, but most of the people who do that seem to churn off the site eventually? I can only think of a handful of people who still do this regularly and don't comment.
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.
I don't want to be that person, but you speak with such confidence, as if what you're saying is a commonly held definition of a word.
2:1 is definately lopsided, and "overwhelming" is not a precise defined term in regards to numbers, but a 2:1 ratio does not really match what i think when i hear the word overwhelming.
A more interesting statistics for this discussion would be to have the percentage of users producing publicly visible content. "Using the internet" doesn't mean much (not that I assume the result would be too different, just saying that it would be more meaningful)
Yes, I'd assume the claim referred to content creators. But claiming it's "overwhelming male" requires evidence (reddit stats are proof that there are substantial sites where this is true, but what percentage of the internet is reddit?)
"using the internet" is a binary metric. Look at how many hours are spent on the internet by males vs females, and who creates content on the internet.
There are sites where the user split per sex is around 2:1. The female-dominated ones are generally more vapid than the male-dominated ones. You can check yourself. That is not to say that male-dominated ones are never vapid. To put it in other words, I would say that almost all female-dominated ones are vapid, while "only" the majority of the male-dominated ones are vapid.
Elsewhere: “Professor Pedersen believes Mumsnet’s popularity is partly down to it being a place where women can talk freely about politics without being drowned out by male voices or being subjected to the nastier side of other social media platforms.”
why is the karma of the top 10 not listed on that page along with the others? Seems like an odd omission since you can easily find out the karma for each person if you wish
it's odd because all you have to do is click on the name to see the karma, so why not just list it along with the other 90 names and scores visibly shown on the page?
It was pretty good, my son and I ordered Bangkok Thai on University here in Berkeley. The satay and tom kha gai were excellent, but the chu-chee salmon wasn't as good as the last time we had it. (we got delivery rather than dine-in because of Covid caution)
I will confess, an editor doesn't feel quite right unless it's Inconsolata. Source Code Pro would probably be my second choice - it's the official Rust doc font, and feels good for that.
Maybe I haven't spent enough time digging into the academic literature, but I'm not aware of very much that's good. The original Elm paper[1] is quite good but interestingly enough Elm has moved away from FRP. There are blog posts and talks but not as far as I know a paper.
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.
I still use vim for light editing tasks (mostly when I'm already in a command line), but VS Code is my main, largely because of its excellent rust-analyzer integration. At other times I have used emacs and Sublime.
Would be awesome to link in the famous person's real name and/or achievements when available. Even just putting HN bio text might be enough. Sadly, I don't recognize them all by HN username yet :P
I'm flattered to be on this list :) Thanks for upvoting me lol. I tend to be a bit of a cantankerous bitch in the comments here but I deeply enjoy this community and learn so much from you all.
Here are the posts from my own site that HN liked the most:
A feature that I miss about HN is the ability to subscribe to old posts. It would be nice to be informed when those debates continue, e.g. from references like these.
>Which is a good reason to add a reply-notification system
I share the view that omitting reply notifications is a good tool to prevent flamewars.
What I would like to have are notifications for entire debates. Right now it is useless to add comments to old submissions because nobody is going to read them. If there were subscribers to debates, the audience could return.
To prevent flamewars, subscribers should only be notified when e.g. 20 comments are added to a debate. That leaves time for everybody to cool off and hopefully creates enough substance that it's worth returning to a debate.
It seems that the list is not comprehensive since Walter's website is not included [1]. Fun fact, the most famous Jacques once posted Walter website on HN [1]:
Not to take anything away from the page. It was nice to see some great names in there. And honestly the list is a testament to massive value given to the community. I’ve learned so much.
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.
I don’t pay a lot of attention but I do perceive some efforts to get karma. Eg lots of posting articles, more jostling in comments than is necessary. Wherever there is a measure, some people will optimise for it. We’re human.
I guess I don't pay that much attention to usernames. I've been browsing HN since 2011 and I recognized 5 usernames after scrolling (fairly fast) through the whole list.
I’ve noticed that same thing. On other sites, I get into repeated and ongoing conversations. Maybe not like making friends exactly, but a welcome extra level of connection sometimes. Doesn’t feel like it happens here, at least not for me.
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.
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 had never been so motivated to re-activate my website until I saw people with less karma than me making a list of 340 interesting HN users that I was excluded from!
What about your draft website layouts and your draft project to one day compare a few static site generators so you can actually write your blog and your draft web hosting setup and ...
Someone else scraped HN users in September 2020 to determine which posts were most favorited (by the top 10k users per most comments weighted by number of favorites, then dang shared most favorited globally):
199 comments
[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 238 ms ] threadI’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
Added to the profile now. Maybe they get me next time.
I do recognise a good chunk of the top 30 or so names though
I've been using this[0] Python library which seemed good enough for my needs in some scraping project.
0: https://github.com/lipoja/URLExtract
Out [2]: 'https://github.com/crisdosyago<p>cris@dosycorp.com'
It looks like your about changed more recently than my BQ data pull?
You want to be rich or you want to be famous. Never both.
As others said it’s probably because the link in his bio is missing http:// or something like that.
I have Twitter in my bio, but also my personal site.
If your bio only had Twitter/gmail and no other sites they didn’t include it.
I'll do that and update!
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
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Proven
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.
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
most of the internet is overwhelmingly male, and tech-related places even more so.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1255182/distribution-of-...
2:1 is definately lopsided, and "overwhelming" is not a precise defined term in regards to numbers, but a 2:1 ratio does not really match what i think when i hear the word overwhelming.
3:2 is 60%, 2:1 is 66.6~%, therefore the median is 63.3~%.
63.8% is above the median, so strictly speaking it's slightly closer to 2:1 than 3:2.
I don't think the Internet is overwhelmingly male
What you think and what it is may be two different things
As of 2019, in the world, 58.3% of men use the internet, compared with 48.4% of women.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/327130/internet-penetrat...
https://itu.foleon.com/itu/measuring-digital-development/gen...
Posting a comment on reddit vs posting a comment on Facebook.
Posting a meme on reddit vs posting a meme on Facebook.
Posting a comment on a public Facebook post vs posting a comment on a private Facebook post.
Posting a post in a public Facebook group vs posting a post in a private Facebook group.
Posting a comment on a YouTube video vs posting a comment on a Friend's share of a Facebook video.
Posting a comment on a public Facebook video vs posting a comment on a friend's private reshare of that same Facebook video.
Posting a picture on reddit vs posting a picture on Facebook.
Posting a picture to a public Instagram profile vs posting a picture to a private Instagram profile.
Posting a picture to Twitter where Twitter tries to make everyone log in before viewing the picture.
Sending money with some message on Venmo back when all transactions and messages were public by default (up to last year).
"females" is just the cherry on top.
There are sites where the user split per sex is around 2:1. The female-dominated ones are generally more vapid than the male-dominated ones. You can check yourself. That is not to say that male-dominated ones are never vapid. To put it in other words, I would say that almost all female-dominated ones are vapid, while "only" the majority of the male-dominated ones are vapid.
“When Mumsnet speaks, politicians listen”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12238447
Elsewhere: “Professor Pedersen believes Mumsnet’s popularity is partly down to it being a place where women can talk freely about politics without being drowned out by male voices or being subjected to the nastier side of other social media platforms.”
Somewhere down the line, I believe dang hid it, but I forget the reason why.
- avoid a competition that encourages people to just farm karma, which adds noise;
- avoid a kind of argument from authority, where some people get more influence than their points deserve just because they are high on the table.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index
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...
> Downloaded all HN users from BigQuery
??
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.
>Which is a good reason to add a reply-notification system
I share the view that omitting reply notifications is a good tool to prevent flamewars.
What I would like to have are notifications for entire debates. Right now it is useless to add comments to old submissions because nobody is going to read them. If there were subscribers to debates, the audience could return.
To prevent flamewars, subscribers should only be notified when e.g. 20 comments are added to a debate. That leaves time for everybody to cool off and hopefully creates enough substance that it's worth returning to a debate.
[1]https://walterbright.com/
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7825763
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.
Very interesting blogs though!
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.
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.
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.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351073
This is is a filtered out list for users who have a personal/company website listed in their About section.