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Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
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Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#132Despite being for trends this is actually a good tool to find articles that are interesting but sometimes buried.
Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are a few technologies with pretty generic names which don’t lend themselves so well to this kind of trend analysis. I was curious about Atom. According to the trend it’s still neck and neck with VS Code. But are people really talking about Atom the text editor that much still, or other types of atoms?
I think atom is no longer being developed, so it must not be a that popular topic. is that what you meant?
That’s my assumption, yes.
Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#134Hug of death ` /api/hn -> 504 An error occurred with your deployment FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT cle1::c8vgv-1782399959042-aeba3cae05ff `
I'm also getting /api/hn -> 504 An error occurred with your deployment FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT cle1::48fnt-1782412720840-4855b2b75b5a after a few lookups
Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#135Google 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 e…
Yeah I feel like hackernews trends is alright but the post title is a bit misleading, noted
Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#136Very 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.
Fixed
Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#137Google 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 e…
maybe more like google ngram viewer? https://books.google.com/ngrams/about
Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#138Despite being for trends this is actually a good tool to find articles that are interesting but sometimes buried.
Exactly, I found lots of weird moments in history on the most random topics ever.
I let the LLM generate hundreds of terms and ran a “shock value” metric script to discover the interesting ones.
Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#139Cool! I want to suggest something, Imagine I want to got to a specific date where some topic was hot, I can read it from your website and then go to that date. But it would be better if I could click on some sort of button, or on the points on the graph to go to that date. It would be easy to implement, you just need links like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-05-24
Good idea, noted