HN Trends on HackerShow

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search trends visualisation

SHOW HN2011

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like Google Trends, but for Hacker News

Shown by sant0sk1 on Jun 19, 2011. Click the card to turn it over.

355points

106comments

#9of 1,097 in 2011

Top 1%of 2011 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

17 positive, 34 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 13 critical, out of 68 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.

Idea: 4 for, 7 againstExecution: 2 for, 3 againstPerformance: 2 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against

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

Results not normalized for HN growth
From 3 comments
- first of all, very cool. how is it normalized? every single thing I type in has an upward trend, which to me just suggests that interest in Hacker News has increased over the…
  edge17 on HN
- Is it possible to somehow normalize the numbers by the total number of posts/comments, so that trends across the years do not mostly reflect the user base/activity growth at HN?…
  arturadib on HN
- Awesome work! Can you normalize it against total text volume? Number of mentions always goes up with time as HN grows, % of posts mentioning will be a better measure of mindshare.
  ntoshev on HN
Usernames counted in hit totals
From 2 comments
- I searched for my own username expecting a flatline, but there were a few hits in the last few years. Flattering, but I'm fairly certain that hackers have not been talking about…
  pvilchez on HN
- Strange, I didn't expect the search API to return results for a name that's in the by-line of a comment, but it sure does:…
  sant0sk1 on HN
Charts slow on iPad
From 1 comment
- On an IPad1 the charts render so slowly it's watching a race between brightly colored snakes. Very suspenseful. Please do normalize the results.
  staunch on HN

Normalize by total posts or comments
From 3 comments
- Is it possible to somehow normalize the numbers by the total number of posts/comments, so that trends across the years do not mostly reflect the user base/activity growth at HN?…
  arturadib on HN
- In that case I would do it by number of submissions (posts) + number of comments for each period (3 months I think, looking at your graphs?). I would normalised all quarters to…
  retube on HN
- Is it normalized against the growth of the website?
  swah on HN
Filter out usernames from counts
From 2 comments
- These trends are fairly interesting... http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=y+combinator…
  solipsist on HN
- I searched for my own username expecting a flatline, but there were a few hits in the last few years. Flattering, but I'm fairly certain that hackers have not been talking about…
  pvilchez on HN
Stable chart max axis
From 1 comment
- I like the animation, but it will be an improvement if the chart max stays and not jump up and down
  kuahyeow on HN

Where does HNSearch data come from and is there a dump
From 1 comment
- From where HNSearch is pulling data? Do we have any dump for HN?
  johnx123 on HN
Why are C and C++ giving the same result
From 1 comment
- Awesome tool, but just a heads up: I tried searching for "C" and "C++", and it gave me the exact same line each time.
  wvanwazer on HN

HNSearch
From 1 comment
- Here are some of the various HN tools and interfaces I have collected over time: hckr news - http://hckrnews.com/ Sortable HN - http://hnsort.com/ hnvue - http://www.hnvue.com/…
  solipsist on HN
yctrends
From 1 comment
- Hi, I created a similar tool using the search API, but with lniks to the top stories (by points) over time http://touchwoodsoftware.com/yctrends.html Feel free to take that idea…
  robinwarren on HN
hn-trends on Heroku
From 1 comment
- Coincidentally, I was also working on an HN Trends app a couple weeks ago (though I got distracted and haven't finished), and mine is normalized (by number of comments). For…
  topomorph on HN