Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about

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Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about

(hackeratlas.com)

17h

by andrearitossa

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?

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pelagicAustral
11h
One thing I've been doing lately is asking for "presidential briefings" on hot threads. I like to read the comments but some threads get really really dense and I just want the gist of it and to get a feel for the general sentiment so I task claude to do a 2 or 3 page max pdf with charts and literally just that a presidential style brief of wtf is going on. It never disappoints =)
1. Boss0565
  01h
  This seems like more effort than just skimming
andai
04h
Cool idea!
From the name, I was expecting it would be a spatial tool, i.e. some kind of semantic graph I could navigate. I think that is fruitful territory.
Edit: Oh hey! There is almost exactly what I was visualizing, on the Connections page! This is the coolest part, why isn't this on the front page? (Also, please add scroll to zoom!)
As for the grid, I don't see the value of pagination. I'd rather have it all on one page, so I can scroll, Ctrl+F, etc.
Also, like half of the first page are different kinds of AI? If we want to visualize what % of HN stuff is AI, maybe it would make sense to have a meta-category for that.
(Would also be cool if HN itself supported tags you could toggle... show/hide AI :)
I'm also very curious about the evolution of this data over time. The popularity stats seem to be limited to last 30 days. Would be cool to see stats for all time, and maybe filter by range. (Or graphs? Graphs are cool!)
random3
12h
I thought it's a collection of maps (what an atlas is). Instead it's a list, 9 items per page, 23 pages - it's an index. A map lets you see the full picture in a glance. It seems like a missed opportunity to actually make it an atlas.
1. livinglist
  01h
  You might be interested in this: https://hnheatmap.com/
rmason
05h
I'd like to be able to search if any of my content made the list. Also search the entire stack for stuff not likely to rise high enough for its own category but definitely in there, like less popular languages to see what people are saying. I check HN every couple of hours all day long but its amazing the stuff that you can miss.
alfg
03h
Great idea. UI looks good and clean as well as mobile-friendly. Thanks for this, bookmarked.
cjlm
04h
hey hey, get in touch if you want a better embedded graph
https://garphield.com as seen on https://gdb-engines.com/graph/query-languages/
magicmicah85
04h
The pace of conversation is a nice graph. Are you still ingesting articles? I see data going back to 2020.
cowboylowrez
05h
this is good, hn's frontpage is sort of tiresome lately
forgetfreeman
01h
Go spend an hour scrolling n-gate.com if you really want to know what's needed.
ActorNightly
05h
Apple Ecosystem lmao.
unwanted
06h
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