Hacker News Ranked by Comment/Score Ratio

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Hacker News Ranked by Comment/Score Ratio is a tool that sorts Hacker News submissions by the ratio of comments to upvotes, helping readers find highly-voted stories that generate active discussion and insightful posts that need little commentary. Created for long-time Hacker News readers, it identifies two types of interesting submissions: ones sparking extended debates and ones requiring no additional discussion. The site tracks submissions from June 2021 onward using GitHub Actions after previous automation failures.

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Data between June 15, 2021 and December 12, 2021 are missing because Travis.org stopped working on June 15, 2021. I have migrated over to GitHub actions on December 13, 2021. Being a long-time Hacker News reader, I realized that most interesting HN submissions for me are of two categories: - stories that attract a lot of attention and comments, signaling active and extended debates - stories that attract a lot of attention but few comments, signaling very insightful post that requires no further comments Hence, I used the Comment/Score ratio to sort the top HN submissions and locate these stories at the top and the bottom of thefrom paradite.github.io

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