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Hello HN,

This was a small project of mine after I've found out that I can simply the whole hackernews archive (~48GB) and play around with it.

You can compare terms just like in google trends and you can also see the exact posts & comments from that time.

I like that you can discover what went crazy in the timeline, they just come up as small burst of activity, it's quite fun to play around with it. https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=litecoin&q=dogecoin&q=solana...

I also have a seperate page for the "Who is Hiring?" posts, here is the distribution of programming languages over each monthly "Who is hiring?" post in HN ever. https://hackernewstrends.com/who-is-hiring

Any kind of feedback is welcome.

Hug of death

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This is the only HN submission I ever upvoted because it is amazing
Very cool!

I'd love to have some sort of normalization option to separate more subtle positive trends from the general increase in number of posts.

insane ! I don't know if it's possible but it would be huge if we had access to the localisation of the trends
But can it discover new trends without having to type the keywords?
The example comparisons made me smile. Well done!
nice. i guess AWS still had nothing to fear from GCP/Azure. ty for this
IMO, using AI to assign keywords to a broader group of strict synonymous keywords would make the comparison much more helpful.

Because in general we want to know the trend of categories more than of a word, asking for “auto pilot” for ex. should include “self driving”, FSD etc.

This is great, I was just hoping to find a tool like this and specifically scoped to "Show HN" posts? Is there a way to do that?
Nice. Is the data points y-axis normalized by total amount of comments at that time?

Edit: Nvm seems like absolute count if you click the graph.

COOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!
too slow or broker right now
We had to take the site down for a second, it'll be online in a few minutes. Thanks for trying it out
Reminds me of this side project I'm working on.

https://gitlab/here_forawhile/torum

It's a HN clone, that syncs with HN that allows you to basically establish smaller private communities who can discuss anything that's on HN without actually being on HN.

It also indexes and let's you search through the DB which I find is really useful to find things that peak my interest.

Really beautiful, informative, and functional layout. Great work!
Love this, seems to struggle with newly indexed words. Will try again when the FP load is gone
One useful feature would be to normalize by total so that I can see changes in something as opposed to just total site growth. Right now I have to chart a single generic parameter but if I pick poorly it’ll confuse the issue.
Really cool! Where would you get the data for something like this? Is it open, or its scraped?