Max Woolf

A blog written by data scientist Max Woolf out of San Francisco.

Popular posts: 40
Total points: 10,047
HN comments: 4,640
Rank: #82 personal

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When a Startup Sends a Passive-Aggressive Email Every Day

2013195 points151 comments Tech Industry & Business details

You're Not Allowed to Criticize Startups, You Stupid Hater

2016168 points49 comments Tech Industry & Business details

What Percent of the Top-Voted Comments in Reddit Threads Were Also First Comment?

2016163 points76 comments Databases & Data details

Are commenters ’late to this thread’ indeed late?

A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions

2014147 points36 commentscited by 5Databases & Data details

After downloading all 1,265,114 Hacker News submissions from the official Hacker News API, I gathered a few interesting statistics which show the true impact of Hacker News.

The Friends Of My Friends Are Not My Friends

2014105 points60 comments Math & Algorithms details