20 years of Hacker News discussions, clustered and visualized
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We took the top 3 HN stories every day since October 2006 (~21K stories total), ran topic clustering on them, and visualized how topics rise and fall over time.You can zoom into any period - some patterns are surprisingly clear (AI overtaking startup culture as HN's top topic, crypto's rise and fall, remote work spiking with COVID).Happy to answer questions about the methodology.
HN · launched Mar 22, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 59%) · 0 views
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
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Scraping Hacker News archives via the public Firebase/Algolia API, running standard topic clustering (e.g., BERTopic or embeddings), and rendering an interactive timeline chart is well within vibe-coding scope.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Formatting problems with alphanumeric strings in thread text, Performance/slowness with public traffic, Navigation is top-down (categories first) rather than reverse lookup
Feature requests: Reverse-lookup stories by individual story to find categories, Browse from story outward to see classification and related stories, Improve query performance for public traffic
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 240 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #139 of 241 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 137 days after the earliest competitor.
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