Hacker Atlas
A map of what Hacker News talks about
Details
- External ID
- 49844497
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hacker Atlas
- Website domain
- hackeratlas.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 86
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9106858054226475
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
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?
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- topic map and visualizer for hacker news discussions
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 122 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 123 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- 20 years of Hacker News discussions, clustered and visualized · hn · 2026-03-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Show HN submissions have tripled since 2023 · hn · 2026-01-11 · 18 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
- Hackerbrief · hn · 2026-03-16 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Hacker-News Buddies · hn · 2026-07-04 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Search tool for "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?" · hn · 2025-11-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Hacker Backlinks · hn · 2026-02-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.51
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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