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I built a tool to explore HN topics and how they change over time.Currently covers 2024 to today. Is it useful? What's missing?
HN · launched Sep 25, 2026 · 86 upvotes (top 9%) · 1 view
Niche: data and scientific visualization tools · 146 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 146 launches in data and scientific visualization tools →
Could you build this?
Yes The Hacker News public Firebase and Algolia APIs provide all the data, and topic clustering can be handled using open-source embeddings and a standard web dashboard.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: hnheatmap.com, n-gate.com, garphield.com
Concerns raised: More effort than just skimming, Pagination limits usability, Infinite scroll legality concerns, Misclassification of topics (e.g. Sun company vs star), Graphs scale poorly for visual navigation
Feature requests: Infinite scroll, Comment length average statistics over time, Word count metrics, Visual map view instead of paginated index, Show topic rather than post
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 203 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 204 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News · hn · 2026-11-03 · 475 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- HackerFriction, HackerTube for what HN complains about · hn · 2026-11-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Show HN submissions have tripled since 2023 · hn · 2026-01-11 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Wikihack · hn · 2026-11-02 · 339 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Hacker Times · hn · 2026-06-28 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- HN Hall of Fame · hn · 2026-07-22 · 219 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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