A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions
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.
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How Many #nofilter Instagram Photos Actually Have No Filter?
Not all of them.
Probabilistically Generating GitHub Projects
Perl interface to Git repositories via Ruby. Brute force your OpenERP data integration with flatfiles.
Reddit is Growing Slowly, but Surely
I analyzed the daily number of submissions from over two years to see which events, if any, have affected Reddit’s growth rate. As it turns out, Reddit grows by itself.
When Uninstalling A PC Game Erases the Entire Hard Drive
A poorly coded PC game uninstaller could delete not just the game, but the entire hard drive. That would be a problem.