Hacker NewsJan 6
65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform
https://philippdubach.com/standalone/hn-sentiment/
#ycombinator #Hacker_News_sentiment_analysis #attention_dynamics_research #HN_engagement_data #NLP_sentiment_classification #social_news_ranking #content_virality #DistilBERT_BERT_RoBERTa #LLM_sentiment_scoring #tech_community_behavior #computational_social_science
65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform

Analysis of 32,000 HN posts and 340K comments reveals negativity bias correlates with higher engagement. Data, methodology, and full paper available.

Philipp D. Dubach - Finance, Tech & Strategy