Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Analysis

Bluesky accounts add 10k followers per day (facts.dev)
Discover users with the most new followers added in the last day. Perfect for keeping up with most popular and widely followed accounts!
Social Media, Twitter, Data Analysis
7 points by uwemaurer 7 hours ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: Want to keep my software engineering skills sharp (ycombinator.com)
I currently started work as a data analyst. For a data analyst, the work is quite programming heavy actually (e.g. we don't use Excel but Jupyter). But for a software engineer, the amount of programming feels low. It's more like creating quick scripts.
Software Engineering, Data Analysis, Programming, Skills
19 points by mettamage 5 days ago | 33 comments
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth (2022) (asmartbear.com)
Even Facebook and Slack did not grow “exponentially,” as frequently described. Here is the correct model that you can use to understand and affect growth.
Business, Growth, Myths, Data Analysis
7 points by mooreds 7 days ago | 2 comments
Git-of-theseus: Analyze how a Git repo grows over time (github.com/erikbern)
Analyze how a Git repo grows over time
Git, Software Development, Version Control, Data Analysis
5 points by mooreds 9 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: LA Wildfire Satellite Analysis (github.com/xingyzt)
Analysing satellite imagery of the Palisade and Eaton Fires
Wildfires, Satellite Imagery, Data Analysis, Open Source, California
116 points by xingyzt 9 days ago | 60 comments
Show HN: Reconfigured – Video game-inspired journal for analysts (reconfigured.io)
Never worry about documentation again. reconfigured makes notetaking fun and organizes your data quests into knowledge you can easily retrieve.
Software, Productivity, Data Analysis, Games
10 points by thesnappingdog 10 days ago | 2 comments
Visualizing Dimensional Relationships (qlikdork.com)
I’m guessing that like other Data Visualizers around the world you spend a lot of your time creating dashboards that are full of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), and not nearly enough time creating dashboards that focus on visualizing dimensional relationships.
Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, Dashboards
39 points by andreykh 10 days ago | 2 comments
Small Data [video] (youtube.com)
Data Analysis, Video Tutorials
16 points by baobabKoodaa 11 days ago | 0 comments
Levels.fyi Annual Pay Report (levels.fyi)
Levels.fyi's annual compensation report. View top paying companies, cities, titles & other trends.
Compensation, Data Analysis, Employment, Salary, Trends
10 points by darth_avocado 11 days ago | 0 comments
Parsing the C64 Bubble Bobble Wind Currents (geon.github.io)
A while ago, I managed to rip the level data and graphics from the c64 version of Bubble Bobble.
Retro Gaming, C64, Programming, Game Development, Data Analysis
151 points by geon 12 days ago | 34 comments
How to Activate the Value Flywheel Effect with Your Data (owulveryck.info)
In today’s hyper-competitive world, businesses no longer rely solely on gut decisions or intuition; they depend on data-driven insights to stay agile and make fast, smart decisions.
Data Analysis, Business Strategy, Competitive Advantage
4 points by owulveryck 13 days ago | 1 comments
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024 (flowingdata.com)
Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. If I liked a project, it was on FlowingData. But only a handful can be the best. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024.
Data Visualization, Design, 2024, Charts, Data Analysis
7 points by luispa 15 days ago | 0 comments
How to monitor your local weather with Grafana (grafana.com)
Ever look at a wall of raw data and wonder, “How am I supposed to make sense of this?” That’s exactly where Grafana comes in, turning your data into beautiful dashboards with panels of graphs and other visualization types.
Grafana, Data Analysis, Dashboards
202 points by meysamazad 18 days ago | 41 comments
How to get upvoted on Hacker News (towardsdatascience.com)
Hacker News regularly publishes a dataset to Kaggle. As I looked at my posts go dying quickly down the “new” section, I wondered what was the relationship between score and how long the story was remaining in the visible portion of the “new” section, raising the probability of upvote.
Hacker News, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Social Media
12 points by asdefghyk 18 days ago | 4 comments
4.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub (arxiv.org)
GitHub, the de-facto platform for open-source software development, provides a set of social-media-like features to signal high-quality repositories. Among them, the star count is the most widely used popularity signal, but it is also at risk of being artificially inflated (i.e., faked), decreasing its value as a decision-making signal and posing a security risk to all GitHub users.
GitHub, Fake Accounts, Security, Data Analysis
236 points by qianli_cs 20 days ago | 212 comments
I downloaded five years of H-1B data from the US DOL website (4M+ records) (twitter.com)
Data Analysis, Immigration, United States
32 points by sergiotapia 20 days ago | 8 comments
Advent of Code analysis through the years (jvanelteren.github.io)
In total there have now been more than 23M stars awarded (+5M compared to last year)! And 2024 is just barely finished, many people will earn stars in the days to come.
Programming, Data Analysis
20 points by chkas 23 days ago | 4 comments
Show HN: Explore how nations talk about each other in UN speeches (koenvangilst.nl)
Each year in September, world leaders gather in New York for the UN General Assembly, delivering hundreds of speeches.
Data Analysis, International Relations, United Nations, Public Speaking
8 points by vnglst 24 days ago | 2 comments
Lobste.rs/Hacker News links overlap (skyshelf.app)
How many links overlap between Lobste.rs and HN?
Social Media, News Aggregators, Data Analysis, Comparison
63 points by figomore 25 days ago | 54 comments
A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles (waymo.com)
Understanding the safety impact of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) is crucial for their widespread adoption, yet robust real-world evaluation remains a critical area of development.
Self-Driving Cars, Safety, Insurance, Data Analysis, Transportation
178 points by devangs 29 days ago | 477 comments
The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road) (statsmapsnpix.com)
In short, I believe I've found a longer straight line without crossing a public road than the line identified by Ordnance Survey in 2019. Important stuff, clearly. Let me explain.
Geography, Data Analysis, Mapping, Great Britain
18 points by fanf2 30 days ago | 6 comments
The Rise of the AI Crawler (vercel.com)
Real-world data from MERJ and Vercel shows distinct patterns from top AI crawlers.
Artificial Intelligence, Web Development, Data Analysis
9 points by handfuloflight 30 days ago | 1 comments
Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics (blwt.io)
A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that are not super comfortable with extracting and interpreting data from stores, be it databases, CSV files in an object store, or even just a spreadsheet.
Leadership, Data Analysis, SQL, Statistics
51 points by PaulHoule 30 days ago | 19 comments
Analyzing the World Chess Championship 2024: Empirical synthesized approach (medium.com)
The 2024 World Chess Championship between Gukesh Dommaraju and Ding Liren captivated chess fans worldwide, culminating in an unforgettable finish where Gukesh claimed the title, becoming the youngest-ever World Chess Champion.
Chess, World Championship, Sports, Data Analysis
46 points by maximamel 31 days ago | 47 comments
Ask HN: Better ways to extract skills from job postings? (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN,<p>I’m building a job aggregator with a live data platform that provides in-depth market analysis. I’m currently focused on improving how I extract skills from job postings. While my current extraction setup achieves ~90% accuracy, it struggles with edge cases and lacks flexibility, particularly when skills are phrased in unexpected ways.
Job Searching, Data Analysis
8 points by azeusCC 31 days ago | 9 comments
The Rise of the AI Crawler (vercel.com)
Real-world data from MERJ and Vercel examines patterns from top AI crawlers.
Artificial Intelligence, Web Development, Data Analysis
8 points by cramforce 31 days ago | 1 comments
Bellingcat Open Source Challenge (bellingcat.com)
Investigative Journalism, Data Analysis, Cybersecurity
8 points by m0nhawk 32 days ago | 0 comments
Visualizing All ISBNs (and $10k bounty by 2025-01-31) (annas-archive.org)
This picture is 1000×800 pixels. Each pixel represents 2,500 ISBNs. If we have a file for an ISBN, we make that pixel more green. If we know an ISBN has been issued, but we don’t have a matching file, we make it more red.
Data Visualization, ISBNs, Bounty, Data Analysis
17 points by pilimi_anna 32 days ago | 0 comments
Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars? (milescole.dev)
There’s been a lot of excitement lately about single-machine compute engines like DuckDB and Polars. With the recent release of pure Python Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric, the excitement about these lightweight native engines has risen to a new high. Out with Spark and in with the new and cool animal-themed engines— is it time to finally migrate your small and medium workloads off of Spark?
Data Analysis, Databases, Python, Data Engineering
169 points by RobinL 34 days ago | 114 comments
Remote Jobs Paying $250k+ Surge by 18%, New Data Shows (forbes.com)
Ladders, the job board for high-earning jobs that pay at least $100,000 a year, just released new data on the availability of remote jobs over the past quarter. And its biggest takeaway? High-paying remote jobs are coming back.
Remote Work, Job Market, Salaries, Data Analysis
5 points by rustoo 34 days ago | 0 comments