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I scraped 1,576 HN snapshots and found 159 stories that hit the maximum score. Then I crawled the actual articles and ran sentiment analysis.<p>The results surprised me.<p>*The Numbers*<p>- Negative sentiment: 78 articles (49%)
- Positive sentiment: 45 articles (28%)
- Neutral: 36 articles (23%)<p>Negative content doesn't just perform well – it dominates.<p>*What "Negative" Actually Means*<p>The viral negative posts weren't toxic or mean. They were:<p>- Exposing problems ("Why I mass-deleted my Chrome extensions")
- Challenging giants ("OpenAI's real business model")
- Honest failures ("I wasted 3 years building the wrong thing")
- Uncomfortable truths ("Your SaaS metrics are lying to you")<p>The pattern: something is broken and here's proof.<p>*Title Patterns That Worked*<p>From the 159 viral posts, these structures appeared repeatedly:<p>1. [Authority] says [Controversial Thing] - 23 posts
2. Why [Common Belief] is Wrong - 19 posts
3. I [Did Thing] and [Unexpected Result] - 31 posts
4. [Company] is [Doing Bad Thing] - 18 posts<p>Average title length: 8.3 words. The sweet spot is 6-12 words.<p>*What Didn't Work*<p>Almost none of the viral posts were:
- Pure product launches
- "I'm excited to announce..."
- Listicles ("10 ways to...")
- Generic advice<p>*The Uncomfortable Implication*<p>If you want reach on HN, you're better off writing about what's broken than what you built.<p>This isn't cynicism – it's selection pressure. HN readers are skeptics. They've seen every pitch. What cuts through is useful criticism backed by evidence.<p>*For Founders*<p>Before your next launch post, ask: what problem am I exposing? What assumption am I challenging? What did I learn the hard way?<p>That's your hook.<p>---<p>Data: Built a tool that snapshots HN/GitHub/Reddit/ProductHunt every 30 minutes. Analyzed 1,576 snapshots, found 2,984 instances of score=100, deduped to 159 unique URLs, crawled 143 successfully, ran GPT-4 sentiment analysis on full article text.<p>Happy to share the raw data if anyone wants to dig deeper.
Dear Americans, please don’t take this the wrong way - I love the US, have friends there, and treasure memories I made there.<p>However, it seems plausible that the US is turning into a rogue, authoritarian, Russia-like state increasingly more friendly towards Russia and hostile towards Europe. I am a European who grew up in a country still occupied by Russia. I am increasingly more worried about building my projects on American platforms, using an American operating system, etc.<p>What if the US actually attacks Greenland or finds another way to be openly hostile to Europe? I am not saying it will happen. All I am saying is that it seems prudent to prepare. How would you do it?<p>It is currently impossible to unhook myself from the US, but I would like to minimize exposure.<p>I can’t do anything about things like building an alternative to VISA/MasterCard (except wait for the digital Euro), so I will focus on things I can actually do and ignore things like my government buying F-35s and possibly giving my health data to Palantir.<p>* Mobile phone - there are no real European alternatives; it’s just Apple vs Google. Samsung or HTC with Android seems like a less bad option.<p>* Operating system - I have been using Linux for ages, getting rid of Windows seems relatively easy.<p>* Social networks - I grew to hate them before the current US admin, never used TikTok or Instagram, and I mostly stopped using Facebook and Twitter around the time Musk bought Twitter.<p>* Stripe for payments - this will be hard, but I am experimenting with our local payment processor, and so far it seems surprisingly doable, but it is not a battle-tested solution like Stripe.<p>* Clerk authentication - doable, but a lot of work and worrying<p>* AWS - I had a surprisingly bad experience with AWS and switched to a local provider with a lot less functionality (that I mostly do not need) and a lot better support<p>* GitHub, Cloudflare... dear God, how could we Europeans allow ourselves to be that dependent on anyone? Everything I touch is American.<p>* Gmail - this will be hard (two decades of emails). Any advice?<p>* Anything AI-related - fuuu, I am lost here.<p>What am I missing/forgetting? What do/would you do in my place?<p>I really hope you will take this as a brainstorming exercise and not an attack on America. I really do love the US and hope its democracy turns out to be more resilient than it currently seems.<p>EDIT: Please kindly keep responses practical. Let’s not turn this into a political discussion. You might approach it as a “what if” exercise, even if you think what the current US admin is doing is great, Europeans deserve what they get, etc.
Hi HN,<p>I’ve been working on Flowscape, a 2D canvas engine focused on building interactive editors and visual tools.
It provides low-level control over scenes, nodes, and interactions without enforcing a specific UI or workflow.<p>The goal is to give developers a flexible foundation for custom editors, diagrams, and canvas-based interfaces.
I’d love feedback on the API design, architecture, and real-world use cases.<p>Demo: <a href="https://flowscape-ui.github.io/core-sdk/?path=/story/interactive-playground--interactive-playground" rel="nofollow">https://flowscape-ui.github.io/core-sdk/?path=/story/interac...</a>
GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/Flowscape-UI/core-sdk" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Flowscape-UI/core-sdk</a>
We're releasing the next-gen Ralph Wiggum architecture - agent clusters with independent validator agents with clear rejection mandates. As long as the code is not feature-complete and production-grade, it will not be approved. The result is AI without any need for babysittng.