http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=fuck%2C+shit%2C+cunt%2C+co... I put in 5 of the 7 George Carlin dirty words. Looks like 'motherfucker' has a recent surge. http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=piss%2C+tits%2C+cunt%2C+co... If you want to see it without the top two words dwarfing the other five.
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#52interesting indeed
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came to say exactly this. The chart seems to start (by default anyway) at the beginning of 2007. I'm guessing the user-base and thus activity of HN has increased considerably since then. So yes it would be good to be able to re-normalise in some way. By the number of registered users would probably be the simplest. By number of comments posted would be another, by number of submissions or even number of words would a…
It uses submission titles AND comments. How would you suggest going about normalization?
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#54These trends don't account for traffic increasing to the site (and therefore posts/comments) as time progresses. That makes this less useful.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
It uses submission titles AND comments. How would you suggest going about normalization?
Divide by the weighted average change in the number of hits for the 100 most common English words? Basically, add up all the uses of "and," "or," "a," "the," etc. in each period. If Q3 2009 has 4X the sum of those words as Q1 2007, then divide all Q3 2009 results by 4.
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#56These 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%2…
What else is in that bookmark folder of your favorite HN tools?
hckr news - http://hckrnews.com/
Sortable HN - http://hnsort.com/
hnvue - http://www.hnvue.com/
HackemUp - http://www.mrspeaker.net/2011/04/11/hackernews-bookmarklet/
Search Y Combinator - http://searchyc.com/
WWHNS (What Would Hacker News Say) - https://github.com/marcua/wwhns/
HNSearch - http://www.hnsearch.com/
Visual Search - http://hnsearch.heroku.com/#h
Hacker News Resources - http://hnresources.com/
Kalimba - http://hn.embed.ly/
The Best of ... Hacker News - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of
HackRSS - http://www.hackrss.com/
HN Trends - http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/ ;)
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#59we may be in a bubble about talking about a bubble: http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=bubble
a very nice tool!
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#60http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=coffeescript%2C+jquery%2C+...