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by 21stio on 5/13/20, 1:00 PM with 40 comments

  • by 1f97 on 5/13/20, 2:29 PM

  • by anewlanguage on 5/13/20, 3:50 PM

    It'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 It wasn't until January that discussion started when the virus hit the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110873 I wish there was an easy way to zoom in on a date range.

  • by sixhobbits on 5/13/20, 2:14 PM

    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

  • by captn3m0 on 5/13/20, 3:01 PM

  • by EE84M3i on 5/13/20, 2:53 PM

    Unfortunately 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.

  • by victorthehuman on 5/13/20, 2:56 PM

    This 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.

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  • by jpopesculian on 5/13/20, 2:25 PM

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

  • by WaitWaitWha on 5/13/20, 4:24 PM

    Fascinating to look at political keywords, both from source of the links and source of the posters.

  • by epa on 5/13/20, 3:03 PM

    Very 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

  • by donclark on 5/13/20, 5:08 PM

    I would also like to see the most popular searches and most recent searches, etc with your tool.

  • by seph-reed on 5/13/20, 6:04 PM

    I've been wanting to a project like this to show the front-page uptime of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and others.

  • by stevofolife on 5/13/20, 2:40 PM

    THIS IS GOOD. Finally something useful.

  • by king_magic on 5/13/20, 2:12 PM

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

  • by seumars on 5/13/20, 2:50 PM

    Cool! Now we can have n-gate digests based on REAL data!

  • by nacs on 5/13/20, 2:45 PM

    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.