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

Post by Pikamander2 » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 3:50 PM UTC

marky1991 wrote: post #47

sinuhe69 wrote: post #21

IMO, using AI to assign keywords to a broader group of strict synonymous keywords would make the comparison much more helpful. Because in general we want to know the trend of categories more than of a word, asking for “auto pilot” for ex. should include “self driving”, FSD etc.

I would not like this. This is the kind of change that made google search so annoying. (Eg what if I want to track the history of 'self-driving' vs 'auto pilot' in sales pitches? Or more basically, what if the system wrongly interprets me wrongly?) Better to support | or similar old-fashioned search engine syntax and dwis and not dwim.

Post by y1n0 » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 3:51 PM UTC

steve1977 wrote: post #44

docheinestages wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this project is an ad for their product (Upstash, promising "Highly Available, Infinitely Scalable"), then the last thing they'd want is a hug of death :/

Downstash

Post by corv » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 3:53 PM UTC

Post by bluecoconut » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 4:08 PM UTC

Post by ytkimirti » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

cbeach wrote: post #31

ytkimirti wrote: post #2

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…

This is excellent. A minor suggestion - I'd like to be able to render the current graph taller (full height of my browser window). Also some sentiment analysis on the "people" graphs would be very insightful (particularly for the likes of Edward Snowdon, Julian Assange, Elon Musk and Sam Altman). Perhaps colour the area under the graph red-orange-green based on the sentiment?