Hey 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.<p>[1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810112" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810112</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.mattmazur.com/category/hntrends/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mattmazur.com/category/hntrends/</a>
These trends are fairly interesting...<p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg</a><p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=y+combinator" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=y+combinator</a><p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg%2C+tptacek%2C+patio11%2C+edw519%2C+jacquesm" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=pg%2C+tptacek%2C+patio11%2...</a><p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=2007%2C+2008%2C+2009%2C+2010%2C+2011" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=2007%2C+2008%2C+2009%2C+20...</a><p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=android%2C+iphone" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=android%2C+iphone</a> vs. <a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=android%2C+iphone&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/trends?q=android%2C+iphone&ctab=0&...</a><p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=show+hn%2C+ask+hn%2C+tell+hn" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=show+hn%2C+ask+hn%2C+tell+...</a><p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=mac%2C+gruber%2C+steve+jobs" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=mac%2C+gruber%2C+steve+job...</a><p>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.<p><i>suking</i>, 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?
first of all, very cool.<p>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 :)
<a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=fuck%2C+shit%2C+cunt%2C+cocksucker%2C+motherfucker" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=fuck%2C+shit%2C+cunt%2C+co...</a><p>I put in 5 of the 7 George Carlin dirty words. Looks like 'motherfucker' has a recent surge.<p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=piss%2C+tits%2C+cunt%2C+cocksucker%2C+motherfucker" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=piss%2C+tits%2C+cunt%2C+co...</a><p>If you want to see it without the top two words dwarfing the other five.
we may be in a bubble about talking about a bubble: <a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=bubble" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=bubble</a>
I 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. ;)<p>Perhaps you should only query titles and text, not usernames?<p>edit: for example, searching for pg would include his own submissions as well as mentions and Ask PG subs.
I found this interesting: "Hacker News" vs. "HN"[1]<p>As the site gains reputation/users you can see that many switch to the abbreviated version.<p>[1] <a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=hacker+news%2C+HN" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=hacker+news%2C+HN</a>
Let us never forget the first great hacker news bubble.<p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=nickb" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=nickb</a>
Hi, I created a similar tool using the search API, but with lniks to the top stories (by points) over time<p><a href="http://touchwoodsoftware.com/yctrends.html" rel="nofollow">http://touchwoodsoftware.com/yctrends.html</a><p>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.
Technews trends, what are we reading and sharing here: Techcrunch vs Mashable vs Readwriteweb vs CNN vs Techmeme<p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=techcrunch%2C+mashable%2C+readwriteweb%2Ccnn%2Ctechmeme" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=techcrunch%2C+mashable%2C+...</a>
Pretty cool visualisations. Just out of curiosity, why did you choose HighCharts? Did you look at jquery FLOT and choose HighCharts <i>over</i> FLOT? Or were you unaware of FLOT altogether?<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/flot" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/flot</a>
For the people who says that HN discuss less about startups, the trends actually shows something else: <a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=startups" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=startups</a>
(Cross-post) There could be a spike in HN Trend's traffic <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/status/82824209721597952" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/status/82824209721597952</a>
What the hell happened with Javascript in mid 2009?<p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=coffeescript%2C+jquery%2C+node.js" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=coffeescript%2C+jquery%2C+...</a>
Is 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?<p>Awesome work thus far though.
Very, very slick. And now I can can graph my increasing time spent on HN :)<p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=jamesbritt" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=jamesbritt</a>
I asked it about ios and android and it broke :(
<a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=ios%2C+android" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=ios%2C+android</a>
Out of curiosity: <a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=ycombinator%2C+techstars" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=ycombinator%2C+techstars</a>
Awesome work!<p>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.
Very cool.<p>Amazingly, C# is talked about precisely as often as C++!<p><a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=c%2B%2B%2C+c%23" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=c%2B%2B%2C+c%23</a><p>;-)
Lol. According to HN, Chrome should be the world's top browser.
<a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=safari%2C+firefox%2C+internet+explorer%2C+chrome" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=safari%2C+firefox%2C+inter...</a>
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<a href="http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=safari%2C+firefox%2C+IE%2C+chrome" rel="nofollow">http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=safari%2C+firefox%2C+IE%2C...</a> (with "IE")<p>Great site by the way. Nice job.