Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Analysis

Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters (skillsets.tech)
Discover the most wanted skills by recruiters
Modern CSV: Multi-Platform CSV File Editor and Viewer (moderncsv.com)
Modern CSV is a powerful CSV file editor/viewer application for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Professionals at all levels of technical proficiency use it to analyze data, check files for uploading to databases, modify configuration files, maintain customer lists, and more. We designed it to compensate for the deficiencies of spreadsheet programs in handling CSV/TSV/DSV/etc. files. We strive to create a user experience our customers describe as “blissful”. 
Numberholders Age 100 or Older Who Did Not Have Death Information on Numident [pdf] (oig.ssa.gov)
How a computer that 'drunk dials' videos is exposing YouTube's secrets (bbc.com)
YouTube is about to turn 20. An unusual research method is unveiling statistics about the platform that Google doesn't want you to know.
I pulled data on 1378 restaurants from Google Maps to rank them in order (mattsayar.com)
See how this list was created. This page was last updated February 12, 2025.
Where are the best restaurants in my city? A statistical analysis (mattsayar.com)
Everyone wants to know the best places to eat, but the "best place" is inherently subjective.
Reclassification is making US tech job losses look worse than they are (theregister.com)
The latest job numbers from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics make IT hiring look like it's in freefall, but that's not the case at all, says consultancy firm Janco.
Sea level in Honolulu (1905-2025) has been 1.56mm per year (noaa.gov)
The relative sea level trend is #trendmmyr millimeters/year with a 95% confidenceinterval of +/- #sterrmmy mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from #startyear to #endyear which is equivalent to a change of feet in 100 years.
Latest jobs data shows decline in tech jobs over the last year (twitter.com)
Competition and survival in modern academia: A bibliometric case study (arxiv.org)
We study the career lengths of researchers in theoretical high-energy physics from 1950 to 2020. Using a cohort-based analysis and bibliometric data from 30,149 authors in three physics disciplines we observe a dramatic increase in the ratio of academic dropouts over time.
You're missing your near misses (surfingcomplexity.blog)
FAA data shows 30 near-misses at Reagan Airport – NPR, Jan 30, 2025
Google Says "Links Matter Less"–We Looked at 1M SERPs to See If It's True (ahrefs.com)
Threads Drives 73.6% More Engagement Than X (buffer.com)
We analyzed 10.2 million posts published to X and Threads in 2024, breaking down their engagement rates, trends, and strengths so you know where to focus your content strategy — and why cross-posting might be the key to maximizing your reach.
I used Google Gemini Pro to compare party manifestos for an Indian election (github.com/shijithpk)
Collecting code and docs here related to some work on party manifestos for Delhi assembly elections in 2025.
Exploring Nine Simultaneous Transients on April 12th, 1950 (2021) (nature.com)
Macrodata Refinement (lumon-industries.com)
AI and Palantir are reshaping how we fight crime (thetimes.com)
FAA data shows 30 near-misses at Reagan Airport (npr.org)
When pilots report near-midair collisions around Reagan National Airport, there's often a military aircraft involved, an NPR analysis of Federal Aviation Administration data shows.
One Billion JSON Challenge (clickhouse.com)
We took on Gunnar Morling’s One Billion Row Challenge almost exactly a year ago, testing how quickly a 1-billion-row text file could be aggregated.
Mathesar – an intutive spreadsheet-like interface to Postgres data (github.com/mathesar-foundation)
Mathesar is an open source application that makes working with PostgreSQL databases both simple and powerful.
Show HN: DeepSeek Your HN Profile (kadoa.com)
Let DeepSeek analyze your HN profile to give you highlights and trends.
How Much Do Udemy Instructors Make (2024) (sellcoursesonline.com)
We analyzed 200K Udemy courses and discovered valuable insights on instructor earnings
A few thoughts on DeepSeek – and why you can't trust what you read (thatstocksguy.substack.com)
Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021 (components.one)
This report is the result of an analysis of Product Hunt from 2014 to 2021, including 76,822 products and 397,067 user profiles. Among its findings is that users who promote productivity apps and users who promote games are the least likely to be the same people, among any pair of categories.
YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups (iamwillwang.com)
Modern Polars – A side-by-side comparison of the Polars and Pandas libraries (kevinheavey.github.io)
This is a side-by-side comparison of the Polars and Pandas dataframe libraries, based on Modern Pandas by Tom Augsburger.
Young men now spend more of their free time alone than any other group (flowingdata.com)
John Burn-Murdoch, for Financial Times (paywalled), breaks down data from the American Time Use Survey to show the increase in time spent alone, specifically among young people.
Ask HN: What percentage of Twitter/X's traffic comes from Reddit? (ycombinator.com)
I'm curious. Can we do the math?<p>What percentage of Twitter traffic comes from reddit?<p>What percentage of reddit subs (weigted by membership?) have banned that type of link?<p>The question being, will this reddit ban of that other social media site make even a small dent in their traffic?
PyVista (pyvista.org)
PyVista is used across science and engineering disciplines. A diverse community use PyVista to visualize data/models in 3D, generate publication-quality illustrations, automate analysis workflows, and build custom applications leveraging PyVista's 3D capabilities.
Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos (ycombinator.com)
I used the YOLO object detection library from Ultralytics to scan over 40 million hotel photos and identify images with office chairs. This helped me create a map showing hotels suitable for remote work.