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Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight

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615 points __rito__ | 5 comments | 10 Dec 25 17:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

Related from yesterday: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
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jasonthorsness ◴[10 Dec 25 18:22 UTC] No.46221368[source]▶
It's fun to read some of these historic comments! A while back I wrote a replay system to better capture how discussions evolved at the time of these historic threads. Here's Karpathy's list from his graded articles, in the replay visualizer:

Swift is Open Source https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=10669891

Launch of Figma, a collaborative interface design tool https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=10685407

Introducing OpenAI https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=10720176

The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=10744206

SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video] https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=10774865

At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=10799261

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1. SauntSolaire ◴[10 Dec 25 21:37 UTC] No.46224234[source]▶
I'd love to see sentiment analysis done based on time of day. I'm sure it's largely time zone differences, but I see a large variance in the types of opinions posted to hn in the morning versus the evening and I'd be curious to see it quantified.
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2. embedding-shape ◴[10 Dec 25 23:16 UTC] No.46225407[source]▶
Yeah, I see this constantly any time Europe is mentioned in a submission. Early European morning/day, regular discussions, but as the European afternoon/evening comes around, you start noticing a lot anti-union sentiment, discussions start to shift into over-regulation, and the typical boring anti-Europe/EU talking points.
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3. nostrebored ◴[11 Dec 25 02:41 UTC] No.46227016[source]▶
“Regular” to who? Pro EU sentiment almost only comes from the EU, which is what you’re observing. Pro-US sentiment is relatively mixed (as is anti-US sentiment) in distribution.
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4. gilrain ◴[11 Dec 25 13:49 UTC] No.46231323{3}[source]▶
> Pro EU sentiment almost only comes from the EU

Says who? But also, it doesn’t suggest what you imply. I could as easily conclude: “Oh wow, the people who actually experience the system like it that much? Awesome!”

5. red-iron-pine ◴[11 Dec 25 18:47 UTC] No.46235339[source]▶
e.g. how many are cali tech bros vs nyc fintec vs 10am moscow shillbot time