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3. 3SO
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4. 4AT
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   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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5. 5MC
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8. 8T3
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9. 9TH
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10. 10TO
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11. 11NS
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12. 12YH
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13. 131T
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14. 14HT
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15. 15OS
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16. 16HE
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17. 17CE
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