Oh, please, please someone toss in some animation (and also expand the sample set to a much longer time frame). By animation I mean that the transition between two "frames" should be titles moving smoothly between positions. It would need some clever use of color and exact path to make it legible. The user-facing purpose of such animation is to make it easier for people to perceive (viscerally) the bouncy dynamics of…
(and also expand the sample set to a much longer time frame) Sure - it only started to collect data about 10 hours ago but that's certainly the plan.. though I've realized it's already useful for me to catch up with HN while I was asleep. Regarding animation, thanks for the idea. I'm really just a JavaScript "dabbler" but I'll have a think about how it could be done. Rather than just rendering a JSON file into HTML i…
Re: Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
#31Interesting idea. I built http://hckrnews.com/ so that it would be easier to track what is new as well as catch up on what had been posted since my last visit. I'm not sure why I'd visit this instead?