Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News

Post by OwlHuntr » Mon, Jun 20, 2011, 3:34 AM UTC

Post by sushrutbidwai » Mon, Jun 20, 2011, 3:58 AM UTC

solipsist wrote: post #56

pitdesi wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What else is in that bookmark folder of your favorite HN tools?

Here are some of the various HN tools and interfaces I have collected over time: 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://…

Post by johnx123 » Mon, Jun 20, 2011, 6:14 AM UTC

Post by Concours » Mon, Jun 20, 2011, 9:32 AM UTC

Post by qF » Mon, Jun 20, 2011, 9:42 AM UTC

sant0sk1 wrote: post #32

solipsist wrote: post #11

These 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…

I was surprised to learn that the search API returns hits on usernames when they appear outside of the post/comment content. I'm looking now to see if there's an easy way to filter around it. I've also been emailing with one of the ThriftDB guys and I'll ask him as well. If not, it'd be very difficult to filter those out because I'm not currently (nor would I want to) retrieving all the matching items, just the numbe…