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Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News

355 points| sant0sk1 | 14 years ago |hntrends.jerodsanto.net

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[+] solipsist|14 years ago|reply
These trends are fairly interesting...

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=y+combinator

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg%2C+tptacek%2C+patio11%2...

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=2007%2C+2008%2C+2009%2C+20...

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=android%2C+iphone vs. http://www.google.com/trends?q=android%2C+iphone&ctab=0&...

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=show+hn%2C+ask+hn%2C+tell+...

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=mac%2C+gruber%2C+steve+job...

Don't forget thought that these trends include the user's own comments and submissions in addition to mentions of them in other users' comments.

suking, this is truly awesome. It immediately joined my bookmark folder of favorite HN tools. I'd be curious, though, if whether or not it would be possible to filter out user names when counting how many times a word has appeared on the site. Or would that be too much of a challenge?

[+] JohnnyBrown|14 years ago|reply
Idle speculation: Wouldn't it be cool if we plotted a user's total karma next to the trend of their name and it turned out to look like an integral?
[+] sant0sk1|14 years ago|reply
I was surprised to learn that the search API returns hits on usernames when they appear outside of the post/comment content.

I'm looking now to see if there's an easy way to filter around it. I've also been emailing with one of the ThriftDB guys and I'll ask him as well.

If not, it'd be very difficult to filter those out because I'm not currently (nor would I want to) retrieving all the matching items, just the number of hits.

[+] shellehs|14 years ago|reply
Can not click the point to view all the relative articles, but, it's sort like painting and counting looks so cute, ^_^
[+] pitdesi|14 years ago|reply
What else is in that bookmark folder of your favorite HN tools?
[+] edge17|14 years ago|reply
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 last few years... and I don't really need a chart to tell me that since I live in silicon valley :)

[+] Jarred|14 years ago|reply
These trends don't account for traffic increasing to the site (and therefore posts/comments) as time progresses. That makes this less useful.
[+] Steko|14 years ago|reply
Agreed would love to see a normalization option that transforms it into a % of submissions in each period.
[+] digitalnalogika|14 years ago|reply
Nice work! I had the same exact idea for the contest and bought the hntrend.com domain 2 weeks ago, too bad I was too lazy to finish it :)
[+] franze|14 years ago|reply
well, looks like there is a service which would deserver that domain...
[+] vnorby|14 years ago|reply
Had the same idea myself as well, bought hnstats.com (although I admit, I looked for hntrend and hntrends.com)...not enough time in the world to do all of these things. Great job with this.
[+] staunch|14 years ago|reply
On an IPad1 the charts render so slowly it's watching a race between brightly colored snakes. Very suspenseful.

Please do normalize the results.

[+] driverdan|14 years ago|reply
The charts are SVG and iOS's implementation of SVG is stupid slow.
[+] pvilchez|14 years ago|reply
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 me. ;)

Perhaps you should only query titles and text, not usernames?

edit: for example, searching for pg would include his own submissions as well as mentions and Ask PG subs.

[+] robinwarren|14 years ago|reply
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 if you like, I think it's interesting not just to see the shape of the trend but also the stories which created the peaks.

[+] cheez|14 years ago|reply
It's cool but doesn't always seem to chart the trend. I have to force a refresh. Using Chrome stable.
[+] kuahyeow|14 years ago|reply
I like the animation, but it will be an improvement if the chart max stays and not jump up and down
[+] sant0sk1|14 years ago|reply
The problem with that is that I have no idea what range the terms queried will be in beforehand. Any ideas how to accomplish this?