Python vs. Ruby: 6 months on Hacker Newsnormalized front page presence vs. time

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Top 10 Articles (with links to HN discussion pages)1: Python 3.3.0 released2: Show HN: script Excel with Python3: Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)4: 7 Python Libraries you should know about5: The first Django site to run on Python 36: Online Python Tutor: Learn programming by visualizing code execution7: C++11 and Boost - Succinct like Python8: Virtualenv to be part of Python 3.39: Why I’m not leaving Python for Go10: Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere

This graph shows the presence of Python and Ruby articles on the front page of HackerNews. Front page presence is derived from each article's number of upvotes, number ofcomments, and rank on the front page.

Each bar on the graph links to the Hacker News discussion page for that article. Fromthat page, you can click a direct link to the article iteself.

This graph was made as a simple experiment about which language figures moreprominently on Hacker News, Python or Ruby. You can read a full description of thisproject at peak5390.wordpress.com.