Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT
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Summary
by metafa.stThe article presents a leaderboard of Hacker News users who frequently use the em-dash character (—) in their comments, highlighting the data-driven insights into user behavior and writing styles on the popular tech news platform.
The use of the em dash (—) now raises suspicions that a text might have been AI-generated. Inspired by a suggestion from dang [1], I created a leaderboard of HN users according to how many of their posts before November 30, 2022—that is, before the release of ChatGPT—contained em dashes. Dang himself comes in number 2—by a very slim margin.
Credit to Claude Code for showing me how to search the HN database through Google BigQuery and for writing the HTML for the leaderboard.