How to get upvoted on HackerNews
Hacker News regularly publishes a dataset to Kaggle. As I looked at my posts go dying quickly down the βnewβ section, I wondered what was the relationship between score and how long the story was remaining in the visible portion of the βnewβ section, raising the probability of upvote.
In this article I look at correlations between the score and different attributes of the story:
- posting date/time, showing indeed a relationship between published story rate and score
- type of story (Show HN, β¦)
- efficiency of reposting
- class of topic (clustering story from the title only with NLP)
TL;DR
- Publish on week-ends, around 12 pacific
- Reposting your story is effective, but marginally beyond once.
- Hacker News rewards working code (Show HN stories)