[gtsnexp]

Is the appeal of this tool its ability to identify semantic similarity?

[A4ET8a8uTh0_v2]

The use case could vary from person to person. When you think about it, hacker news has large enough data set ( and one that is widely accessible ) to allow all sorts of fun analyses. In a sense, the appeal is:

who knows what kind of fun patterns could emerge

[noduerme]

The problem with HN isn't that the patterns are hard to discern, it's that no one wants to acknowledge them.