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1. 1HC
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2. 2IM
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   2021 · upvotetracker.com

3. 3BE
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   2019 · github.com

4. 4HL
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5. 5
   HN Search (Experimental)▲112

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6. 6HH
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7. 7
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8. 8HC
   HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification▲180

   2016 · hnchat.com

9. 9HD
   HN Deck – An alternative way to browse Hacker News▲115

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10. 10HG
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11. 11HA
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12. 12HB
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13. 13HT
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14. 14HD
    HN Demetricator – An extension that removes upvote and comment counts▲92

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15. 15TS
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16. 16AT
    Analyzing top HN posts with language models▲117

    Hi HN, I spent a few weeks looking at the top HN posts of all time. This included exploration, clustering, creating visualizations, and zooming in on what (to me personally) seems like some of the best discussions on here. Three things in this post: 1- The interesting groups of HN posts 2- The interactive visualizations that you can explore in your browser 3- The data from this exploration -- this includes CSV of the titles as well as the text embeddings of 3,000 Ask HN articles. Blog post about this whole process here: [1] ============ 1- The interesting groups of HN posts From the…

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17. 17TH
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18. 18AH
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19. 19HM
    HN Mail – A topic-based newsletter service for Hacker News▲27

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20. 20HN
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21. 21HA
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22. 22IM
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23. 23AH
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24. 24SH
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