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Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News
- kristopher 15y agoI found this interesting: "Hacker News" vs. "HN"[1] As the site gains reputation/users you can see that many switch to the abbreviated version. [1] http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=hacker+news%2C+HN http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=hacker+news%2C+HN
- hmart 15y agohttp://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=bitcoin%2C+groupon%2C+bubble http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=bitcoin%2C+groupon%2C+bubb...
- OwlHuntr 15y agoObvious causation: http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=dolphins%2C+PROTECT+IP http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=dolphins%2C+PROTECT+IP
- rwebb 15y agoslick!
- johnx123 15y agoFrom where HNSearch is pulling data? Do we have any dump for HN?
- pavpanchekha 15y agoIs there any way to normalize by number of users? (Or am I missing something?)
- ysh4u 15y agoThis is really great!
- yuvadam 15y agoinb4 http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=bitcoin http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=bitcoin
- bobbles 15y agosimilar results.. http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=airbnb http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=airbnb
- ntoshev 15y agoAwesome work! Can you normalize it against total text volume? Number of mentions always goes up with time as HN grows, % of posts mentioning will be a better measure of mindshare.
- sant0sk1 15y agoThanks so much! Hmm, good idea on % of posts, though most of the value I believe is in comparing multiple terms, in which case the raw number of mentions isn't as important as the relation of the trend lines.
- akavi 15y agoThat's not entirely true. For example, the first thing I searched for was "Haskell", curious to see if it had gained or lost popularity in the past couple of years. The graph has an upward trend, but without knowing what the trend for total volume on HN is, that information is useless.
- edge17 15y agofirst of all, very cool. how is it normalized? every single thing I type in has an upward trend, which to me just suggests that interest in Hacker News has increased over the last few years... and I don't really need a chart to tell me that since I live in silicon valley :)
- sant0sk1 15y agoGood point. I wasn't really thinking about normalization as I was more interested in comparing trends on multiple terms, but I don't think it'd be too much work to change the algorithm to account for HN's growth.
- suking 15y agoYah, you could easily do it by total # of posts to account for the growth. Cool stuff man.
- hammock 15y agoThe trends on multiple terms are actually easier to read after normalization anyway. Right now the power-law curve growth of HN in total is making it hard to read the difference in growth between, say, FB and twitter. Easier for our brains to process if you took the ln() of them - which is definitely the fastest way to fix the charts - or normalized in some other way.
- retube 15y agoCame to say exactly this. The chart seems to start (by default anyway) at the beginning of 2007. I'm guessing the user-base and thus activity of HN has increased considerably since then. So yes it would be good to be able to re-normalise in some way. By the number of registered users would probably be the simplest. By number of comments posted would be another, by number of submissions or even number of words would all be interesting. Btw - my suggestions got me thinking - I assumed this is looking at posts and comments. Whether just submission titles or if includes comments will affect best way to normalise.
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- arturadib 15y agoIs it possible to somehow normalize the numbers by the total number of posts/comments, so that trends across the years do not mostly reflect the user base/activity growth at HN? Awesome work thus far though.
- sant0sk1 15y agoYup, this seems like an obvious improvement as I believe you're the 3rd to mention it already :) I'll definitely do that next, since it's not too hard to implement and seems like a big win when you are just trending a single term.
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- patrickaljord 15y agohttp://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=android%2C+iphone http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=android%2C+iphone
- solipsist 15y agoThese trends are fairly interesting... http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=y+combinator http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=y+combinator http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg%2C+tptacek%2C+patio11%2C+edw519%2C+jacquesm http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg%2C+tptacek%2C+patio11%2... http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=2007%2C+2008%2C+2009%2C+2010%2C+2011 http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=2007%2C+2008%2C+2009%2C+20... http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=android%2C+iphone http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=android%2C+iphone vs. http://www.google.com/trends?q=android%2C+iphone&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=android%2C+iphone&ctab=0&... http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=show+hn%2C+ask+hn%2C+tell+hn http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=show+hn%2C+ask+hn%2C+tell+... http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=mac%2C+gruber%2C+steve+jobs http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=mac%2C+gruber%2C+steve+job... Don't forget thought that these trends include the user's own comments and submissions in addition to mentions of them in other users' comments. suking, this is truly awesome. It immediately joined my bookmark folder of favorite HN tools. I'd be curious, though, if whether or not it would be possible to filter out user names when counting how many times a word has appeared on the site. Or would that be too much of a challenge?
- sant0sk1 15y agoI was surprised to learn that the search API returns hits on usernames when they appear outside of the post/comment content. I'm looking now to see if there's an easy way to filter around it. I've also been emailing with one of the ThriftDB guys and I'll ask him as well. If not, it'd be very difficult to filter those out because I'm not currently (nor would I want to) retrieving all the matching items, just the number of hits.
- pvilchez 15y agoI searched for my own username expecting a flatline, but there were a few hits in the last few years. Flattering, but I'm fairly certain that hackers have not been talking about me. ;) Perhaps you should only query titles and text, not usernames? edit: for example, searching for pg would include his own submissions as well as mentions and Ask PG subs.
- sant0sk1 15y agoStrange, I didn't expect the search API to return results for a name that's in the by-line of a comment, but it sure does: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=pvilchez&start=0 http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=pvilch... This is something I should definitely work around in the future. Thanks for bring it to my attention!
- digitalnalogika 15y agoNice work! I had the same exact idea for the contest and bought the hntrend.com domain 2 weeks ago, too bad I was too lazy to finish it :)
- franze 15y agowell, looks like there is a service which would deserver that domain...
- digitalnalogika 15y agohttp://twitter.com/#!/sant0sk1/status/82564569708503040 http://twitter.com/#!/sant0sk1/status/82564569708503040
- vnorby 15y agoHad the same idea myself as well, bought hnstats.com (although I admit, I looked for hntrend and hntrends.com)...not enough time in the world to do all of these things. Great job with this.
- staunch 15y agoOn an IPad1 the charts render so slowly it's watching a race between brightly colored snakes. Very suspenseful. Please do normalize the results.
- driverdan 15y agoThe charts are SVG and iOS's implementation of SVG is stupid slow.
- kristofferR 15y agoIt works great on the iPad 2' with animations and everything
- iamwil 15y agohttp://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=fuck%2C+shit%2C+cunt%2C+cocksucker%2C+motherfucker http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=fuck%2C+shit%2C+cunt%2C+co... I put in 5 of the 7 George Carlin dirty words. Looks like 'motherfucker' has a recent surge. http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=piss%2C+tits%2C+cunt%2C+cocksucker%2C+motherfucker http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=piss%2C+tits%2C+cunt%2C+co... If you want to see it without the top two words dwarfing the other five.
- corin_ 15y agoPossibly from "The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers"?
- false 15y agoI asked it about ios and android and it broke :( http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=ios%2C+android http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=ios%2C+android
- cheez 15y agoIt's cool but doesn't always seem to chart the trend. I have to force a refresh. Using Chrome stable.
- elsewhen 15y agowe may be in a bubble about talking about a bubble: http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=bubble http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=bubble
- vijaydev 15y agohttp://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=ruby%2Cpython http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=ruby%2Cpython http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=rails%2Cdjango http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=rails%2Cdjango Interesting that Ruby stays below Python but Rails stays well above Django.
- grok1fy 15y agoThere are similar metrics for job openings. It seems plausible that Python is becoming an all-purpose language while the focus for Rails / Ruby is on web apps. If true, this would be reminiscent of Perl v. PHP.
- franze 15y agoXML vs Json http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=xml%2C+json http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=xml%2C+json that's close
- Jarred 15y agoThese trends don't account for traffic increasing to the site (and therefore posts/comments) as time progresses. That makes this less useful.
- Steko 15y agoAgreed would love to see a normalization option that transforms it into a % of submissions in each period.
- georgieporgie 15y agoVery cool. Amazingly, C# is talked about precisely as often as C++! http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=c%2B%2B%2C+c%23 http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=c%2B%2B%2C+c%23 ;-)
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- solipsist 15y agoI think it may ignore the #, ++, along with various other symbols. See this link (you may have to refresh once or twice if it doesn't work the first time): http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=c%2B%2B%2C+c%23%2C+c-%2C+c*%2C+c http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=c%2B%2B%2C+c%23%2C+c-%2C+c...
- csomar 15y agoFor the people who says that HN discuss less about startups, the trends actually shows something else: http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=startups http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=startups
- rmk 15y agoPretty cool visualisations. Just out of curiosity, why did you choose HighCharts? Did you look at jquery FLOT and choose HighCharts over FLOT? Or were you unaware of FLOT altogether? http://code.google.com/p/flot http://code.google.com/p/flot
- sant0sk1 15y agoI chose HighCharts because I have experience with it and knew right away that it'd get me where I wanted to go. I had never heard of FLOT. Thanks for introducing me to it, it looks cool and I'll check it out for future projects!
- swah 15y agoIs it normalized against the growth of the website?
- sek 15y agohttp://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=scala%2C+erlang%2C+clojure%2C+node.js http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=scala%2C+erlang%2C+clojure... interesting indeed
- jhuni 15y agoIt would seem that NodeJS is taking away some of the share of functional programming languages.
- mikemoka 15y agothis is awesome, it would be a dream if advanced queries could be comparable though
- teddytruong7 15y agothis is great, awesome how its so fast.
- dclowd9901 15y agoWhat the hell happened with Javascript in mid 2009? http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=coffeescript%2C+jquery%2C+node.js http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=coffeescript%2C+jquery%2C+...
- cpeterso 15y agoNode.js was released in mid-2009. Did it launch a surge in JavaScript popularity or just ride it?
- dhbanes 15y agoLet us never forget the first great hacker news bubble. http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=nickb http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=nickb
- kuahyeow 15y agoI like the animation, but it will be an improvement if the chart max stays and not jump up and down
- aymeric 15y agoOut of curiosity: http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=ycombinator%2C+techstars http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=ycombinator%2C+techstars
- nagnatron 15y agovim/emacs http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=vim%2C+emacs http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=vim%2C+emacs
- tomp 15y agohttp://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=bitcoin http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=bitcoin Looks like a bubble...
- matt1 15y agoHey Jerod. I own the domain HNTrends.com, which I used for a similar project about two years back [1][2]. If you plan on keeping this project up, I'd be happy to transfer the domain name over to you. Shoot me an email: matt@leandesigns.com. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810112 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810112 [2] http://www.mattmazur.com/category/hntrends/ http://www.mattmazur.com/category/hntrends/
- noduerme 15y agoLol. According to HN, Chrome should be the world's top browser. http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=safari%2C+firefox%2C+internet+explorer%2C+chrome http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=safari%2C+firefox%2C+inter... -or- http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=safari%2C+firefox%2C+IE%2C+chrome http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=safari%2C+firefox%2C+IE%2C... (with "IE") Great site by the way. Nice job.
- foenix 15y agoAn observation about geographies: http://goo.gl/4BUFL http://goo.gl/4BUFL
- jamesbritt 15y agoVery, very slick. And now I can can graph my increasing time spent on HN :) http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=jamesbritt http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=jamesbritt
- Concours 15y agoTechnews trends, what are we reading and sharing here: Techcrunch vs Mashable vs Readwriteweb vs CNN vs Techmeme http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=techcrunch%2C+mashable%2C+readwriteweb%2Ccnn%2Ctechmeme http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=techcrunch%2C+mashable%2C+...
- sdfjkl 15y agoExcellent work! http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=excellent http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=excellent
- robinwarren 15y agoHi, I created a similar tool using the search API, but with lniks to the top stories (by points) over time http://touchwoodsoftware.com/yctrends.html http://touchwoodsoftware.com/yctrends.html Feel free to take that idea if you like, I think it's interesting not just to see the shape of the trend but also the stories which created the peaks.
- wvanwazer 15y agoAwesome tool, but just a heads up: I tried searching for "C" and "C++", and it gave me the exact same line each time.
- tilt 15y ago(Cross-post) There could be a spike in HN Trend's traffic http://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/status/82824209721597952 http://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/status/82824209721597952