Nice! Would love a brief explanation of the infrastructure. I see the Powered by "Upstash Redish Search", but why choose Upstash Redis Search vs something else?
Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
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Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#82Almost all of the major vulnerability and hack are just single spikes at the time it happened and it tails off after that… except Stuxnet. Stuxnet is was much more interesting that most other attacks since it was very political and openly published. Of course, the thing that attack was about is still a news headline today as well
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Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#83Google 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 e…
Now if Algolia had a dataset of what people are searching for on HN that'd be it
Was considering that as well, but I doubt that people use Algolia in the same way that they use Google
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#84great idea! Now, you are running into the same issue Google Trends had to solve: term disambiguation. For instance, "atom" is ambiguous in a comparison of editors like this: https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=sublime&q=atom&q=vscode. Given LLMs it might be possible to use an embedding vector (with context) instead of a text string for indexing, and if you do, this problem might go away.
Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#85This looks quite nice! But suspiciously absent data points.. no Java or Go for the languages? Seems odd. No Amazon in companies, yet I think it's often mentioned.
I wondered if "go" got filtered out because it's also just a regular word.
Either way, very cool!
Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#86Google 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 e…
Someone asked an imo good question (that I was going to vouch for, idk why it was dead), but deleted it. Not sure why, but so I'll not credit the username in case they don't want that and changed some words for stylometrics avoidance
> The concept seems pretty comparable. From the title I had a good idea of what it was; when clicking on it, the visual presentation felt familiar & intuitive. \n\n Being a little less literal can be useful!
That's why I'm pointing it out: the title leads you to think they're the same metric, the page looks visually similar, and so you treat it as the same data type; but when you read the data through this lens, you draw wrong conclusions. It took me a while, scrolling down the examples, before I realised why it felt so off and that my mindset is wrong. It's what's being written about currently, not what people on HN are actually looking for
It's indeed not about being nonliteral, it's for me about having been confused about the data being shown
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#87Cool! I want to suggest something, Imagine I want to got to a specific date where some topic was hot, I can read it from your website and then go to that date. But it would be better if I could click on some sort of button, or on the points on the graph to go to that date. It would be easy to implement, you just need links like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-05-24
Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#88Google 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 e…
Someone asked an imo good question (that I was going to vouch for, idk why it was dead), but deleted it. Not sure why, but so I'll not credit the username in case they don't want that and changed some words for stylometrics avoidance > The concept seems pretty comparable. From the title I had a good idea of what it was; when clicking on it, the visual presentation felt familiar & intuitive. \n\n Being a little less l…
>Someone asked an imo good question but deleted it. Not sure why
it was me, and i deleted it because i realized my last sentence "being a little less literal can be useful" came across as unnecessarily blunt, which i didn't want. but i wasnt sure how to express what i wanted to say without it being that way. so i deleted it while rethinking my phrasing, and rethinking your comment.
in the end, i kind of came around to understand where you were coming from, so i didnt bother to recomment.
Re: Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
#89The '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?
I think atom is no longer being developed, so it must not be a that popular topic. is that what you meant?
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someone asked an imo good question (that I was going to vouch for, idk why it was dead), but deleted it. Not sure why, but so I'll not credit the username in case they don't want that and changed some words for stylometrics avoidance > The concept seems pretty comparable. From the title I had a good idea of what it was; when clicking on it, the visual presentation felt familiar & intuitive. \n\n Being a little less l…
> Someone asked an imo good question but deleted it. Not sure why it was me, and i deleted it because i realized my last sentence " being a little less literal can be useful " came across as unnecessarily blunt, which i didn't want. but i wasnt sure how to express what i wanted to say without it being that way. so i deleted it while rethinking my phrasing, and rethinking your comment. in the end, i kind of came aroun…
Thanks! Didn't come across like that to me though, all good