Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data
2 days ago
- #Data Analysis
- #Hacker News
- #Codex
- The entire Hacker News dataset is stored in parquet files totaling about 10GB.
- Codex was used with Modolap to analyze the dataset, focusing on keyword mention trends over time.
- Initial queries compared mentions of Rust vs Go and MySQL vs PostgreSQL to see how they evolved historically.
- A script was generated through minimal interaction with Codex using Modolap to perform the analysis.
- An additional hypothesis suggested a gradual decline in the average length of comments over time.