Hackerverse
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search and visualisation of hacker news
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Hackerverse
Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun
blog.wilsonl.in#hacker news#semantic search#embeddings#data visualization#sentiment analysis
How HN took it
21 positive, 27 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 5 critical, out of 57 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.
Idea: 6 for, 0 againstExecution: 3 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 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
Impressive scope and execution for a one-person project
From 3 comments
This is impressive work, especially for a one man show! One thing that stood out to me was the graph of the sentiment analysis over time, I hadn't seen something like that before…
abe94 on HNThis is a surprisingly big endeavour for what looks like an exploratory hobby project. Not to minimize the achievement, very cool, I'm just surprised by how much was invested…
oersted on HNThis is amazing, the amount of skill and knowledge involved is very impressive.
ed_db on HN
Search works well for finding old stories
From 1 comment
This search engine is amazing. I was looking for an old story about curing acid reflux by some exercise, Google/DDG/Kagi/HN's Algolia were completely useless, this found it first…
stavros on HN
Smooth canvas map with zoom
From 1 comment
I'm impressed with the map component in canvas. It's very smooth, dynamic zoom and google-maps like. Gonna dig more into it. Exemplary Show HN! We need more of this.
nojvek on HN
Objections
Sentiment analysis results seem skewed negative
From 2 comments
Amazing work, I'm impressed by the scope of your project! I must say though, is it jina or bge-3/flag - the embeddings (and tokenizer?) do not do a good job on tech topics. It's…
ComputerGuru on HNThanks! Yeah I'd like to dive deeper into the sentiment aspect. As you say it'd be interesting to see some overview, instead of specific queries. The negative sentiment stood out…
wilsonzlin on HN
Auto zoom and generic results for unfamiliar queries
From 2 comments
Really love the island map! But the automatic zooming on the map doesn't seem very relevant. E.g. try typing "openai" - I can't see anything related to that query in that part of…
NeroVanbierv on HNAmazing work, I'm impressed by the scope of your project! I must say though, is it jina or bge-3/flag - the embeddings (and tokenizer?) do not do a good job on tech topics. It's…
ComputerGuru on HN
Mobile interaction problems with map cards
From 1 comment
Absolutely wonderful project and even more so the writeup! Feedback: on my iOS phone, once you select a dot on the map, there is no way to unselect it. Preview card of some…
coolspot on HN
Requests
Add links from results to HN threads
From 2 comments
This is super cool! Both the writeup and the app. It'd be great if the search results linked to the HN story so we can check out the comments.
gsuuon on HNVery cool! I was hoping to be able to navigate to the HN post from the map though? Is that possible?
gitgud on HN
Keep the search index up to date
From 1 comment
This search engine is amazing. I was looking for an old story about curing acid reflux by some exercise, Google/DDG/Kagi/HN's Algolia were completely useless, this found it first…
stavros on HN
Email subscription digests
From 1 comment
Adding a subscribe feature to get an email with the most recent posts in a topic/community would be really cool. One of my favorite parts of HN is the weekly digest I get in my…
paddycap on HN
Questions
Which embedding model was used and how well it handles tech terms
From 1 comment
Amazing work, I'm impressed by the scope of your project! I must say though, is it jina or bge-3/flag - the embeddings (and tokenizer?) do not do a good job on tech topics. It's…
ComputerGuru on HN
How much the embeddings cost
From 1 comment
how much you paid to generate those embeddings?
Igor_Wiwi on HN
Alternatives named
latent-scope
From 1 comment
Here's a great tool that does almost exactly the same thing for any dataset: https://github.com/enjalot/latent-scope Obviously the scale of OP's project adds a lot of interesting…
oersted on HN
hackmap
From 1 comment
I made something very similar a few weeks ago. I also included usernames with the average of their comments: https://tomthe.github.io/hackmap/
tomthe on HN