HN Explorer

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brudgers
The links to HN suggest that the data set is about a year old.
dpritchett
Looks cool! I just noticed the search is case sensitive - "php" returns no results while PHP returns quite a few. Same with c#/C#.

Thanks!

kseistrup
It looks good!

I'd like to be able to click on a language in the language column, rather than having to ring it in in the search box.

Also, it would be nice if the “Read on HN” link had the posting date — preferrably in ISO 8601 notation — as tooltip.

toxicFork
Nice project, I'd love to be able to sort these based on things like:

  * date first mentioned on HN
  * date last mentioned on HN
  * number of links pointing to
  * number of stars on github
  * language
muricula
Thanks for the feedback! These are all definitely possible. We'll look into implementing these, but we're both students who are pretty busy with school and interviews for jobs after we graduate soon.
faceyspacey
So open source it so others can contribute
tschuy
If you click the Fork Me button in the top right you can contribute right now :)
jedberg
This is great!

One quick feedback, you should probably normalize the case in searches. I searched for "python" and got nothing. I had to change it to "Python" to get it to work.

decentrality
I noticed this immediately too. But since there are a fixed set of possible languages, seems like a dropdown box and/or multi-select would do the trick and remove the possibility of user error.
muricula
We use the language reported by the GitHub api, so the list of languages may change without notice. We should definitely normalize capitalization and I think there are node libraries edit distance we could leverage too. Thanks for the advice!
nanny
I'd like to be able to search "lisp" and get both Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp. I tried that and was surprised when nothing showed up.
Zikes
I think that would be best handled by manually coding a set of language synonyms, rather than substring searches. Shorter language names could cause problems in the latter, such as C and Go.
swegg
Nice! Nitpick: it would be cool to be able to click on a language to automatically search for it.
chao-
Already used this to find some fun tools, one of which I'll start using later today. Thanks!

As others have said, it would be useful to have some "max age" requirement.

JoshTriplett
Interesting idea! Would you consider extending this to cover projects not hosted on GitHub, including gitlab, bitbucket, and similar?
muricula
That's a great idea! We'd have to look at those sites individual APIs. PRs welcome of course!
joeax
This is pretty neat and useful. A bit disappointed though that I didn't see my GitHub project listed. I would think you could build this list with a simple Google query "site:news.ycombinator.com link:github.com"
sjs382
What does "trending" mean, in this context?

The top item I see (node.php) has 7 points, no comments, and was posted 386 days ago.

muricula
If I recall, if a link to GitHub hits the front page then we pick it up. The code to clean up old entries in the database is slightly broken (oops! :), Tschuy is fixing that up right now.
BinaryIdiot
Hmm this is pretty cool but I'm a little sad my project, msngr.js, isn't listed (it was on HN 344 days ago and hit the front page briefly). Would love to see it stated what criteria(s) are used in determining the projects without me going through the source.
muricula
If a GitHub link makes it to the top 100 posts to hacker news we grab it. A while ago the PostGres DB on Heroku filled up, and we stopped pulling in new links, but we've fixed that now. Sorry your project isn't listed! If it makes it to the front page again, maybe on the next release, we'll automatically feature it.
vinceguidry
Can't hit the back button to go back to the project list. Makes for bad UX.

Cool concept.

atombender
The newest link is this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8818244), which is 386 days old. Looks like the author hasn't been updating it for more than a year.
niutech
Glad that you found my project!
skrowl
This is a pretty handy idea, especially for the "X version 1.0.0 released!" with absolutely no description about what X is. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem up to date / accurate.
MCRed
Love the idea! Alas it appears that there have been no go, elixir or "golang" projects posted, or in your index. (or maybe search isn't working.)
tschuy
Search has been updated! Go projects are under "Go", and there's on elixir project on there.
elcapitan
Is this manually curated? (the titles seem to be different than the original HN titles)
tschuy
The titles are from the Github projects.
lobster_johnson
An Atom feed, so I can plug this into my reader, would also be great.
saidajigumi
Another suggestion: In addition to normalization that others have mentioned, support for searching on the most common synonyms and abbreviations would be great. E.g. "js" for "Javascript", etc.
elviejo
Interesting.

I would like the [Search] form to be implemented using GET. so that I send links with search results.

n00b101
This is awesome! It would also be really useful to have column indicating which open source license the project uses.
wiwillia
Really interesting, thank you for sharing. Discovered resdet which is something I've been searching for a long time!