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

#151
Fun project and well executed. It would be cool if it had the option to adjust for relative volume.

For example, a search for “iPhone” dips around 2025, but did interest in it decline or were there just fewer comments on Hacker News that year (based on searches for generic words like “the” or “is” I suspect it was actually the latter)?

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

#152

LLMs spotted https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=Genuinely

Curve looks a lot like total Hacker News volume but with a bigger spike in the last year. Would be interesting to see this adjusted relative to average content volume

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

#154
post #42

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.

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.

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

#159

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://hackerne…

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