Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments

ytkimirti

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.

clacker-o-matic

ooh this is sick! really nice ui too!

NoSalt

Woah, great work! I am really liking the trend for "linux": https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=linux

simonpure

Hug of death ` /api/hn -> 504 An error occurred with your deployment FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT cle1::c8vgv-1782399959042-aeba3cae05ff `

vachina

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

scarecrw

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.

GL26

insane ! I don't know if it's possible but it would be huge if we had access to the localisation of the trends

some_furry

https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=furries&q=furry Hmm, did I break something?

dom96

Very cool idea. Shows programming language trends pretty well. https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=Nim&q=Rust&q=Zig

docheinestages

But can it discover new trends without having to type the keywords?

flakiness

The example comparisons made me smile. Well done!

lazystar

nice. i guess AWS still had nothing to fear from GCP/Azure. ty for this

sinuhe69

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.

cloudkj

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?

rightbyte

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.

jdw64

COOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!

drchaim

too slow or broker right now

ytkimirti

We had to take the site down for a second, it'll be online in a few minutes. Thanks for trying it out

smalltorch

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.