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Show HN: Visualize any topic on Hacker News
- king_magic 6y agoThis is really nicely done, great job. Does it cap the # of submissions it looks at to 1,000?
- 21stio 6y agoThanks! 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
- sixhobbits 6y agoThis 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model
- 21stio 6y agoI'm happy, that you like it! Yeah, you are right and thanks for the read. I'll have a look into it
- jpopesculian 6y agoI like it other than the fact that you stole the grin logo: https://grin.mw/ https://grin.mw/
- tmikaeld 6y agoOuch, yeah, it's basically and exact ripoff
- 1f97 6y agoprevious HN topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141148
- hobofan 6y agoThis is a slightly different tool. I'd hope that we won't have one of those every day now though.
- dang 6y agoIt seems much too close to the original Show HN to have a second one two days later. The rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) say: "New features and upgrades ("Foo 1.3.1 is out") generally aren't substantive enough to be Show HNs. A major overhaul is probably ok." This may not technically be a new feature but slight variations on the same thing are very much in the bucket that that rule is meant to address. This is a special case of a more general issue: follow-up posts [1] are not great for HN because they are repetitive, and curiosity withers under repetition. The test we apply is whether a post contains significant new information [2]. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20follow-up&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20follow-up&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- stevofolife 6y agoTHIS IS GOOD. Finally something useful.
- nacs 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141148 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.
- 21stio 6y agoit’s a different application
- mistermann 6y agoI reckon whether something is necessary or not is a matter of opinion, not a matter of fact. Personally, this is one of the most useful and thought provoking demonstrations of leveraging pre-existing information that I have ever encountered.
- seumars 6y agoCool! Now we can have n-gate digests based on REAL data!
- EE84M3i 6y agoUnfortunately their API doesn't seem to support the one feature I've wanted from any hackernews API: writing a query that only shows posts that got removed from the front page for being flagged.
- mistermann 6y agoThat would be a very interesting thing to know, I've noticed that certain topics seem to be considered (by some) to be not appropriate for discussion. It's quite interesting if you think about it, because the ability to notice any trends is affected by the very phenomenon itself.
- saagarjha 6y agoRight, because certain things are off-topic and metadiscussion on the is also off topic.
- mistermann 6y ago> certain things are off-topic Is there a list of these somewhere? If not, then how do people decide what is and is not "on-topic"? > metadiscussion on the is also off topic I see meta-discussion (and similar) on HN all the time. Is this documented somewhere as well?
- testbot123 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- saagarjha 6y ago> Is this documented somewhere as well? Yeah, the Hacker News Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > I see meta-discussion (and similar) on HN all the time. Metadiscussion is usually OK. It's discouraged when the thing you're metadiscussing about is itself not on topic.
- victorthehuman 6y agoThis looks like something I had in mind a few months ago, but my idea morphed into an HN iOS app client with some extra bells and whistles, not published yet, needs a few more tweaks to pass the app store review. Anyways this is great, thinking if I could integrate some features into the app.
- captn3m0 6y agoSuggestion: Add support for passing the topic via URL? https://showcase.metamate.io/hackernews-trends/#!topic=kubernetes https://showcase.metamate.io/hackernews-trends/#!topic=kuber... or https://showcase.metamate.io/hackernews-trends?topic=kubernetes https://showcase.metamate.io/hackernews-trends?topic=kuberne... maybe?
- 21stio 6y agoyeah agreed, we will add it. Thanks for pointing it out! :)
- epa 6y agoVery cool for finding old HN topics, like this one where Paul Graham is conspiring that bitcoin was created by a government (2013). >https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5547423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5547423
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- anewlanguage 6y agoIt's very interesting to view the results for e.g. "coronavirus". A lone post back in November got no attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22019407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22019407 It wasn't until January that discussion started when the virus hit the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110873 I wish there was an easy way to zoom in on a date range.
- swyx 6y agois it the mid-month effect or are submissions for coronavirus lower now than they were in Feb? is this a rolling number?
- iso1631 6y ago> A lone post back in November That would be amazing, but that story was Jan 10th. The next one was Jan 21st. Also not the oldest, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22000761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22000761 is a day earlier, and refers to a BBC report dated Jan 9th
- anewlanguage 6y agoI see the problem: I read the date in American format (mm/dd/yyyy) and it's dd/mm/yyyy. That's a very confusing date format, yyyy/mm/dd is better as an international format.
- groby_b 6y agoISO8601. Breathe it, live it, be it. That's yyyy-mm-dd. yyyy/mm/dd is ambiguous because the slash-separator is shared across all conflicting formats. Dashes are pretty much always ISO compliant formats. (Yes, it's a small difference, but it helps)
- danso 6y agoI agree, and I have to restrain myself not to use YYYY-MM-DD when signing official U.S. government forms. That said, I understand why year-first dates are cumbersome from an everyday perspective, especially in contexts where only day/month is needed.
- WaitWaitWha 6y agoFascinating to look at political keywords, both from source of the links and source of the posters.
- donclark 6y agoI would also like to see the most popular searches and most recent searches, etc with your tool.
- seph-reed 6y agoI've been wanting to a project like this to show the front-page uptime of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and others.
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- 21stio 6y agoThanks for pointing this out. No idea, why it appeared on the list. There's already a github issue https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/issues/3835 https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/issues/3835