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Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
An analysis of which stories are removed from the front page of Hacker News due to moderator intervention.
Evan Sangaline
- Popular posts
- 4
- Total points
- 2,290
- HN comments
- 638
- Rank
- #695 personal
Visit sangaline.com → On Hacker News Apr 2015 – Mar 2017
Web & Frontend 3Tools & Productivity 2Math & Algorithms 2Society, Policy & Culture 1
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Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more
The full code for the completed scraper can be found in the companion repository on github. Introduction I wouldn’t really consider web scraping one of my hobbies or anything but I guess I sort of do a lot of it.
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Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
A data-driven exploration of how the Hacker News ranking algorithm works.
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Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout for Swype
An overview of my work on optimizing phone keyboard layouts for Swype and T9. There's some interesting history here as well as a novel simulation-based approach to keyboard optimization.