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.

February 24, 2014 · 8 min

How Many #nofilter Instagram Photos Actually Have No Filter?

Not all of them.

February 10, 2014 · 1 min

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.

November 18, 2013 · 2 min