by Yukinu » Mon Jul 10, 2023 1:47 am
A site I found from an HN moonjump:
https://craigmod.com/ridgeline. It's a blog series by a writer in Japan who is walking around Japan and documenting some of the things and places that he sees while on the walks.
nafnlj wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:01 pm
I think it was most likely came up on a jump thanks to Hacker News. My reasoning:
1. 5 of my articles made Hacker News page 1 in 2021 and 2022, and two of the five had enough "points" that they appear in all of the Hacker News curators.
2. I think that the vast majority of people who use Moonjump "jump" instead of using the search box. If someone used the search box, it is possible one of my articles would come up since I am well indexed by Marginalia. But Hacker News seems like the more likely candidate.
I have no way of knowing for sure though. When I say referrer -- I mean it was picked up by my very basic local analytics plugin as moonjump.app. The plugin only captures some referrers, not where they go (it also doesn't catch all -- for example Marginalia and most Fediverse projects do not appear as referrers). Sometimes I can match an unusual referrer to specific articles, but it is only one click.
I took a look at the source again, the HN jump picks 1 of 3 categories (top stories, best stories, and new stories), and the API returns 500 results, so definitely could have been from HN, essentially anything posted on there has a 1/1500 chance of being the jump (newstories), increasing to 3/1500 if it hits the front pages (topstories and beststories, although I'm not sure what the difference is between the 2).
Code: Select all
class Hack:
def __init__(self):
self.base_url = 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0'
def random_category(self):
"""
Returns a random category.
"""
categories = ['topstories', 'beststories', 'newstories']
return random.choice(categories)
nafnlj wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:01 pm
Same... I only learned about it because my first Hacker News adventure led to someone saving one of my articles there. My impression was: "Pinterest, but for articles instead of random pictures." Seems like it has a decent enough free plan but I didn't see a use-case for it, so did not investigate beyond poking around to see what it is for. I may try some are.na jumps to see what kinds of articles are shared there.
I'll try a couple more are.na jumps, see if I get anything interesting.
A site I found from an HN moonjump: https://craigmod.com/ridgeline. It's a blog series by a writer in Japan who is walking around Japan and documenting some of the things and places that he sees while on the walks.
[quote=nafnlj post_id=568 time=1687892501 user_id=111]
I think it was most likely came up on a jump thanks to Hacker News. My reasoning:
1. 5 of my articles made Hacker News page 1 in 2021 and 2022, and two of the five had enough "points" that they appear in all of the Hacker News curators.
2. I think that the vast majority of people who use Moonjump "jump" instead of using the search box. If someone used the search box, it is possible one of my articles would come up since I am well indexed by Marginalia. But Hacker News seems like the more likely candidate.
I have no way of knowing for sure though. When I say referrer -- I mean it was picked up by my very basic local analytics plugin as moonjump.app. The plugin only captures some referrers, not where they go (it also doesn't catch all -- for example Marginalia and most Fediverse projects do not appear as referrers). Sometimes I can match an unusual referrer to specific articles, but it is only one click.
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I took a look at the source again, the HN jump picks 1 of 3 categories (top stories, best stories, and new stories), and the API returns 500 results, so definitely could have been from HN, essentially anything posted on there has a 1/1500 chance of being the jump (newstories), increasing to 3/1500 if it hits the front pages (topstories and beststories, although I'm not sure what the difference is between the 2).
[code]
class Hack:
def __init__(self):
self.base_url = 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0'
def random_category(self):
"""
Returns a random category.
"""
categories = ['topstories', 'beststories', 'newstories']
return random.choice(categories)
[/code]
[quote=nafnlj post_id=568 time=1687892501 user_id=111]
Same... I only learned about it because my first Hacker News adventure led to someone saving one of my articles there. My impression was: "Pinterest, but for articles instead of random pictures." Seems like it has a decent enough free plan but I didn't see a use-case for it, so did not investigate beyond poking around to see what it is for. I may try some are.na jumps to see what kinds of articles are shared there.
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I'll try a couple more are.na jumps, see if I get anything interesting.
