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HNScore - another look at post quality on Hacker News
Posted by alex in Uncategorized on August 30th, 2009
I’m not the only one to notice that some of the most interesting posts on Hacker News generate few comments - and, conversely, some of the least interesting posts generate the most comments (see here, or here). Of course, you can’t generalize too much, but it seems like an interesting metric.
I whipped up a quick GreaseMonkey script to display the ratio of votes to comments. I made a few arbitrary calls: only show a ratio for stories with more than 4 votes, and display the score differently for stories with a ratio less than 1, between 1 and 5, between 5 and 10, and over 10.
Weight loss… or not?
Posted by alex in Uncategorized on July 14th, 2009
This banner ad on some random site really made me do a double-take:

I really have to wonder: did someone goof, or is it an insidious plot to make people notice the ad? If the latter, it definitely worked, although it’s not compelling enough to make me click.
1stdraftmovielines
Posted by alex in Uncategorized on July 10th, 2009
I love the #1stdraftmovielines trend, many are just hilarious.
I put together http://www.1stdraftmovielines.net/ pretty quickly - let’s see if it takes off, I would love to see which ones bubble up to the top!



















