Hacker News Trends
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search trend analytics
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Hacker News Trends
Some more background on what this is and why I built it here:…
eliot-jones.com:5690How HN took it
9 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 17 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.
Design: 3 for, 5 againstIdea: 5 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 6 againstPerformance: 0 for, 4 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful, cool idea for exploring tech trends
From 3 comments
This is super cool and potentially really useful (and thanks for building it!) One q - I can't seem to click through to a specific date? Is this me missing something or you not…
dmje on HNInteresting searches: Bitcoin (2 peaks, now down) Drone (up and down) Machine learning (post peak) AI (post peak with a sudden new peak) SaaS (steady rise to steady high, then…
lancewiggs on HNNeat: http://eliot-jones.com:5690/Home/Trend?id=APL&allwords=true http://eliot-jones.com:5690/Home/Trend?id=k&allwords=true…
kick on HN
Objections
Hosting is unreliable: SSL errors, timeouts and 502/504 errors
From 4 comments
It's now responding with ``` An error occurred during a connection to eliot-jones.com:5690. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code:…
masukomi on HN``` 504 Gateway Time-out ``` When searching for "Google". I assume the number of mentions is too high.
dgudkov on HNEvery time I try to reach this site I get "This site can’t be reached, eliot-jones.com took too long to respond." (ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT). Going to the website without the…
Jap2-0 on HNHow are people reading this? When I try to load it in either Chrome or Firefox I get "502 Bad Gateway" and "Secure Connection Failed" respectively. I assume people are somehow…
ColinWright on HN
Monthly view shows partial month as a drop
From 2 comments
For the monthly view, it should probably truncate the ending date so as to not show a partial month number. February just started so it makes every search term look like it is…
eigenvalue on HNthe last data point is a little irritating. maybe disregarding or scaling the last data point for the whole month would make the graph smoother
pixelN on HN
Cannot compare multiple terms on one graph (fixed later)
From 1 comment
From a purely dataviz standpoint, this is a fail. The optimal visualization would allow for all 3 terms to be shown on the same graph, or at least the same page. 3 distinct…
listenallyall on HN
Requests
Compare multiple terms on one chart
From 2 comments
From a purely dataviz standpoint, this is a fail. The optimal visualization would allow for all 3 terms to be shown on the same graph, or at least the same page. 3 distinct…
listenallyall on HNalso, i am really enjoy it it would be nice to add multiple terms for a search to compare them in the chart
pixelN on HN
Click a point to see that day's articles
From 2 comments
Nice. One thought I had is it would be cool to be able to click on any (non-zero) point on the graph and see a list of the articles from that day, sort of a drill-down on WHY was…
dullroar on HNThat was my instinctive response when I made my first search; would be a great addition.
spaceandshit on HN
Percent of stories view
From 2 comments
Shouldn't you provide as a baseline the absolute number of posts? I tried three different searches and all showed monotonic growth.
Schiphol on HNIt would be illustrative to show the rate (%) as an alternate to the absolute number of posts.
11thEarlOfMar on HN
Questions
Does the trend account for growth in HN post volume?
From 1 comment
I assume the amount of HN articles per day has increased over the years since 2007 along with the growth of HN popularity. So, when I see a trend in some subject would it take…
blobs on HN
Why does the site not work over HTTPS?
From 2 comments
Does Firefox do this by default or is there a setting to upgrade http to https? As mentioned briefly on the blog I didn't want to spend any money on this (currently not employed…
UglyToad on HN``` Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to eliot-jones.com:5690. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code:…
ColinWright on HN
Alternatives named
hnprofile.com comparison tool
From 1 comment
For those interested, if you'd like to compare trends (by sentiment or volume), I built a similar application.…
lettergram on HN