Ask HN: Is there a way to determine your Hacker News karma percentile?

2 pointsfreework2 comments

At stack overflow, in our profile it tells you what percentile you fit into according to your reputation. Is there such a thing for hacker news? If you have the most karma, you're the top 0%, when you first register, you are in the top 100%, etc. This is something I want to build to learn ruby, but I want to know if it already exists first.

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To the best of my knowledge, this does not exist. Ensure that you are at least familiar with http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders, http://www.hnsearch.com/api, http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#api and the rest of that document, be ready to be asked to stop, and enjoy!

(This doesn't look like a trivial application of any of the APIs above, by the way.)

You can figure this out using the dataset at HNSearch[1]

http://www.hnsearch.com/api

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