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Kevin McAlear

Personal blog · kevinmcalear.com/thoughts · on HN as KevinMcAlearcultureprogramming

Kevin McAlear's personal blog at kevinmcalear.com covers culture and programming. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Building Hater News”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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4HN people?
2014–2014first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its write-up of Hater News, a Show HN tool that scores Hacker News users' hater levels, including the author's side notes on building it. Comments only cite it, without judging the writing.

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I love ideas, traveling, technology, wisdom, inventing, understanding systems, ultimate frisbee, leadership, wine, philosophy, humor, differences, relationships, data, & designing.

The author on HN?

KevinMcAlear · 98 karma · member since 2011

kevinmcalear.com

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Building Hater News
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-10-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. From the blog entry[1] Some Final Thoughts. - Sarcasm is hard to detect. Reminded me of park or bird[2]. [1] http://kevinmcalear.com/thoughts/building-hater-news/ [2] http://xkcd.com/1425/

    Comment linking /thoughts/building-hater-news/

    on “Show HN: Hater News – Find trolls and anyone's hater level on Hacker News”
  2. Submitted Building Hater News as a story · 120 points

    HN discussion
  3. I would say this project alone seems harmless enough, but this regarding this comment from the author's blog post I have to say I agree with you on: > *Side Note: Eventually I would love to turn this into a Chrome App that will just real-time analyze any user on a page when you visit hacker news and put a score right next to them so the world can see if they hate or love. I’m also going to build versions of this for…

    Comment linking /thoughts/building-hater-news/

    on “Show HN: Hater News – Find trolls and anyone's hater level on Hacker News”
  4. Sure! I wrote a dry blog post about it actually. http://kevinmcalear.com/thoughts/building-hater-news/ @krapp there were some challenges building out a great model but you can download the whole repo and pull out just the machine learning part and see what I did, I have it commented out in an iPython Notebook. :) The Repo: https://github.com/kevinmcalear/hater_news It basically uses word tokenization using scikit-le…

    Comment linking /thoughts/building-hater-news/

    on “Show HN: Hater News – Find trolls and anyone's hater level on Hacker News”

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