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  • Very cool idea. Shows programming language trends pretty well.

    https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=Nim&q=Rust&q=Zig

    by dom96
  • 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.

    by sinuhe69
  • I would not like this. This is the kind of change that made google search so annoying. (Eg what if I want to track the history of 'self-driving' vs 'auto pilot' in sales pitches? Or more basically, what if the system wrongly interprets me wrongly?) Better to support | or similar old-fashioned search engine syntax and dwis and not dwim.
    by marky1991
  • Very cool!

    one subtle consistency bug that made it hard for me to interpret when I was clicking around: the small thumbnail plot vs the full plot often (always?) seem to use different colors.

    The blue / orange gets assigned to the opposite labels in the A vs. B when you click, which made it confusing to understand.

    by bluecoconut
  • 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.

    by ytkimirti
  • Honestly the HN archive is very valuable. If you had it all on a local db with everything indexed you basically end up with a offline search engine.

    Where is this archive located you speak of?

    by jupr
  • This is excellent.

    A minor suggestion - I'd like to be able to render the current graph taller (full height of my browser window).

    Also some sentiment analysis on the "people" graphs would be very insightful (particularly for the likes of Edward Snowdon, Julian Assange, Elon Musk and Sam Altman). Perhaps colour the area under the graph red-orange-green based on the sentiment?

    by cbeach
  • > https://hackernewstrends.com/who-is-hiring

    Currently it says "no job-post mentions in this window" for everything. Transient error?

    by omoikane
  • Very cool! There seems to be a bug here: https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=vim&q=emacs&q=zed

    For some reason the results cut off at 2018-10 even though "Popular Comparisons" preview shows more.

    by gslepak
  • Fixed
    by ytkimirti
  • The huge spike of "lk-99" in science & frontier tech is amusing...

    This is cool concept, would love a positive/negative sentiment computed for each comment that refers to a given word, so you can see trends of "cloudflare (positive)" vs "cloudflare (negative)" where first one counts comments only if sentiment confidence is greater than say 0.6 and the other one counts comments only if sentiment is less than 0.4 (assuming [0,1] sentiment score)

    by kpw94
  • 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.

    by smalltorch
  • *pique

    'peak' refers to the top of a thing, commonly mountains

    by all2
  • Fixed link: https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/torum
    by hk__2
  • 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.
    by arjie
  • Agreed. That would make this way more insightful. Otherwise most searches will basically be a version of https://xkcd.com/1138/ during periods of site growth.
    by jcgl
  • I'd love to see the opposite as well, ie how much has HN grown over time.
    by apitman
  • Hello, /api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Your database has been temporarily rate-limited, please contact support@upstash.com for further details."}
    by kaelyx
  • Hug of death

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

    by simonpure
  • yeah we killed it :(
    by aNapierkowski
  • We will be with you shortly :)
    by ytkimirti
  • I'm also getting /api/hn -> 504 An error occurred with your deployment FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT cle1::48fnt-1782412720840-4855b2b75b5a after a few lookups
    by arikrahman
  • I get

    /api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Search entry should have an initialized schema, command was: [\"SEARCH.AGGREGATE\",\"hn\",\"{\\\"$or\\\":[{\\\"title\\\":{\\\"$eq\\\":\\\"anthropic\\\",\\\"$boost\\\":5}},{\\\"text\\\":{\\\"$eq\\\":\\\"anthropic\\\"}}]}\",\"{\\\"by_month\\\":{\\\"$dateHistogram\\\":{\\\"field\\\":\\\"time\\\",\\\"fixedInterval\\\":\\\"30d\\\"}},\\\"top_authors\\\":{\\\"$terms\\\":{\\\"field\\\":\\\"by\\\",\\\"size\\\":6}},\\\"by_type\\\":{\\\"$terms\\\":{\\\"field\\\":\\\"type\\\",\\\"size\\\":4}}}\"]"}

    by Roonerelli
  • back in my day we called this a good ole' fashioned slashdotting.
    by jjordan
  • /api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Your database has been temporarily rate-limited, please contact support@upstash.com for further details."}
    by superxpro12
  • If this project is an ad for their product (Upstash, promising "Highly Available, Infinitely Scalable"), then the last thing they'd want is a hug of death :/
    by docheinestages
  • Google Trends is about searches

    This is about published text. More like if Google Trends counted word occurrences on webpages. Or if Google Ngrams counted webpages instead of books

    People don't write much about non-newsworthy things whereas many people search "burger" anytime they want a burger delivery. The datasets aren't usable in the same way

    Edit: not to say it's not a cool product! Just keep this in mind and enjoy using it :)

    by Aachen
  • Now if Algolia had a dataset of what people are searching for on HN that'd be it
    by morkalork
  • maybe more like google ngram viewer? https://books.google.com/ngrams/about
    by swasheck
  • Yeah I feel like hackernews trends is alright but the post title is a bit misleading, noted
    by ytkimirti