Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News

#1

Post by 21stio » Wed, May 13, 2020, 1:00 PM UTC

Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News
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Re: Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News

#2

Post by king_magic » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:12 PM UTC

This is really nicely done, great job. Does it cap the # of submissions it looks at to 1,000?

Re: Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News

#3

Post by sixhobbits » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:14 PM UTC

This is useful! I was hoping for something based on topic modelling [0] though. Keywords are useful, but often are out of context. e.g. I looked for "writing", and many of the matches have nothing to do with writing as topic, but simply mention it in the headline.

Conversely, there are often topics in the post that are not in the headline.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model

Re: Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News

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Post by 21stio » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:17 PM UTC

king_magic wrote: post #2

This is really nicely done, great job. Does it cap the # of submissions it looks at to 1,000?

Thanks! MetaMate's HackerNews service relies on hn.angolia.com under the hook, which only returns a maximum of 1000 hits for any given term unfortunately

Re: Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News

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Post by 21stio » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:19 PM UTC

sixhobbits wrote: post #3

This is useful! I was hoping for something based on topic modelling [0] though. Keywords are useful, but often are out of context. e.g. I looked for "writing", and many of the matches have nothing to do with writing as topic, but simply mention it in the headline. Conversely, there are often topics in the post that are not in the headline. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model

I'm happy, that you like it! Yeah, you are right and thanks for the read. I'll have a look into it

Re: Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News

#6

Post by jpopesculian » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:25 PM UTC

I like it other than the fact that you stole the grin logo: https://grin.mw/

Re: Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News

#7

Post by 1f97 » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:29 PM UTC

previous HN topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141148

Re: Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News

#8

Post by stevofolife » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:40 PM UTC

THIS IS GOOD. Finally something useful.

Re: Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News

#9

Post by hobofan » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:44 PM UTC

1f97 wrote: post #7

previous HN topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141148

This is a slightly different tool. I'd hope that we won't have one of those every day now though.

Re: Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News

#10

Post by nacs » Wed, May 13, 2020, 2:45 PM UTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141148

Considering this was posted just 2 days ago by yourself and there’s a pretty active discussion there, this thread is unnecessary.