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

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Post by cbeach »

ytkimirti wrote: post #60
cbeach wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Thanks for the feedback, noted the full-screen request. The sentiment analysis is very interesting, I can do that easily. Could be a new page as well. Did you see this anywhere else or just your idea?

Just my idea. I'm working on a side project https://newsavista.com/invite/ASAD68923E that aggregates news and tracks news trends and changing sentiment on the major stories. With cheap cloud LLMs (and "free" local LLMs) it turns out to be a trivial feature to build.

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

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Post by mysterydip »

lysace wrote: post #38
jjordan wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

back in my day we called this a good ole' fashioned slashdotting.

Our startup (~20 people) got slashdotted in 1998 or so. I was the only one randomly awake at the time. Remember watching all the logs from our web server in realtime, ready to immediately kill anything or anyone threatening the overall availability. 512 kbps uplink, I think. Even accidental DoS was trivial. We had a self-hosted little data center at our office with the only available stupidly expensive commercial con…

One of the things I love about HN is having stories like this in the comments from otherwise random unassuming usernames

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

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Post by kpw94 »

The huge spike of "lk-99" in science & frontier tech is amusing...

This is cool concept, would love a positive/negative sentiment computed for each comment that refers to a given word, so you can see trends of "cloudflare (positive)" vs "cloudflare (negative)" where first one counts comments only if sentiment confidence is greater than say 0.6 and the other one counts comments only if sentiment is less than 0.4 (assuming [0,1] sentiment score)

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

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Post by al_borland »

corv wrote: post #56

The 'flash vs html5' chart looks strange juxtaposed with that conclusion

There are a few technologies with pretty generic names which don’t lend themselves so well to this kind of trend analysis.

I was curious about Atom. According to the trend it’s still neck and neck with VS Code. But are people really talking about Atom the text editor that much still, or other types of atoms?

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Post by all2 »

smalltorch wrote: post #33

Reminds me of this side project I'm working on. https://gitlab/here_forawhile/torum It's a HN clone, that syncs with HN that allows you to basically establish smaller private communities who can discuss anything that's on HN without actually being on HN. It also indexes and let's you search through the DB which I find is really useful to find things that peak my interest.

*pique

'peak' refers to the top of a thing, commonly mountains

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

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Post by Aachen »

Google Trends is about searches

This is about published text. More like if Google Trends counted word occurrences on webpages. Or if Google Ngrams counted webpages instead of books

People don't write much about non-newsworthy things whereas many people search "burger" anytime they want a burger delivery. The datasets aren't usable in the same way

Edit: not to say it's not a cool product! Just keep this in mind and enjoy using it :)

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