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

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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://…

Sounds like PG/YC should launch a hacker news app store now. :)

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

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In that case I would do it by number of submissions (posts) + number of comments for each period (3 months I think, looking at your graphs?). I would normalised all quarters to the last complete quarter. So if say in q1 2011 there were 1m posts + comments, and in q1 2007 10k, multiply the count for q1 2007 by 100. It would be truly great to have this normalisation optional, e.g option to normalise by comment+post cou…

Thanks, I will definitely implement the multiplier as you suggested. I like this better than showing as a % of total. I'm storing the total hits so I will do the calculations on the client-side, which means I just might be able to add some toggles for the normalization schemes ;)

Thinking a little bit more about this, there are of course lots of submissions that don't get voted up or commented on - spam, off-topic, not interesting etc. Maybe you should only use posts that have either at least one upvote or comment, just to filter out the crap.

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

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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…

This is actually pretty easy to do! You can apply weights to fields, so just apply 0.0 to the username field - or that's how I did it anyway.

Your entry looks very nice, cool to see others had a similar idea. :)

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

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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…

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