Show HN: Analysing Hacker News Metadata with R

This is super-interesting, thank you for posting. Where did you originally get the data from to do this analysis? Have you been harvesting it yourself?

Thanks. I scraped the data from https://www.hnsearch.com/. They have a very nice REST API.

Looks like a few of the top posters stopped using HN as much >2011. Are there some public traffic stats for HN? I'm curious if this was around the time when HN became flooded with new users. The quality has somewhat declined since then (as with all communities).

Although, tptacek is still an HN machine.

Yeah that's really embarrassing.

See kibana3 dashboard http://hnk.aws.af.cm/index.html , data from hckrnews.com data, elasticsearch qbox.io, hosting in appfog.

Waiting to see a comment from tptacek! :)