Show HN: What's hot on Hacker News?

#1

Post by pa7 » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 11:11 AM UTC

Show HN: What's hot on Hacker News?
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Re: Show HN: What's hot on Hacker News?

#2

Post by NiekvdMaas » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 12:49 PM UTC

Look cool, two comments:

- The heatmap is sometimes off some pixels, see http://imgur.com/FyqOG

- It's not possible to click links any more after applying the heatmap. This basically makes it useless, as you have to refresh to page in order to click a popular link.

Re: Show HN: What's hot on Hacker News?

#3

Post by btw0 » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 12:55 PM UTC

If you find this interesting, you may also like this Chrome extension:

http://github.com/wuzhe/social-hotness

Re: Show HN: What's hot on Hacker News?

#4

Post by chewxy » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 12:57 PM UTC

So how does it work?

Re: Show HN: What's hot on Hacker News?

#5

Post by pa7 » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 1:02 PM UTC

NiekvdMaas wrote: post #2

Look cool, two comments: - The heatmap is sometimes off some pixels, see http://imgur.com/FyqOG - It's not possible to click links any more after applying the heatmap. This basically makes it useless, as you have to refresh to page in order to click a popular link.

thanks for the feedback, I should probably gather the row height of HN dynamically instead of having a hardcoded value that seems to work for my devices g

You should be able to click on the links again after closing the heatmap (there's a little x on the right upper corner of the heatmap control that makes the heatmap disappear)

Re: Show HN: What's hot on Hacker News?

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Post by DrJokepu » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 1:08 PM UTC

What does it do? What does "hot" mean? I think it would be great if you could answer these questions in very briefly on the site.

Re: Show HN: What's hot on Hacker News?

#7

Post by pa7 » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 1:15 PM UTC

chewxy wrote: post #4

So how does it work?

drag the 'HN heatmap' link to your bookmarks bar, go to HN frontpage, click the bookmarklet, enjoy. It's basically just the visualization for now.

Re: Show HN: What's hot on Hacker News?

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Post by pa7 » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 1:19 PM UTC

DrJokepu wrote: post #6

What does it do? What does "hot" mean? I think it would be great if you could answer these questions in very briefly on the site.

You're right, the description on the site is not very helpful, I'll add that.

TL;DR It's just a visualization layer above the HN frontpage. Hot means a post has either 'a lot of comments' or 'a lot of points' (configurable with the filter dropdown). It's not much but I was wondering whether anyone would be interested in having such a way of looking at HN. If there's someone who found that useful I'd probably develop it further