I also have a seperate page for the "Who is Hiring?" posts, here is the distribution of programming languages over each monthly "Who is hiring?" post in HN ever.
https://hackernewstrends.com/who-is-hiring
Any kind of feedback is welcome.
jupr•Jun 25, 2026
Honestly the HN archive is very valuable. If you had it all on a local db with everything indexed you basically end up with a offline search engine.
A minor suggestion - I'd like to be able to render the current graph taller (full height of my browser window).
Also some sentiment analysis on the "people" graphs would be very insightful (particularly for the likes of Edward Snowdon, Julian Assange, Elon Musk and Sam Altman). Perhaps colour the area under the graph red-orange-green based on the sentiment?
ytkimirti•Jun 25, 2026
Thanks for the feedback, noted the full-screen request.
The sentiment analysis is very interesting, I can do that easily. Could be a new page as well. Did you see this anywhere else or just your idea?
cbeach•Jun 25, 2026
Just my idea. I'm working on a side project https://newsavista.com/invite/ASAD68923E that aggregates news and tracks news trends and changing sentiment on the major stories. With cheap cloud LLMs (and "free" local LLMs) it turns out to be a trivial feature to build.
Does the trend only show absolute numbers? Because I think it should be divided by the number of posts during the time frame (day?).
oystersauce8•Jun 25, 2026
love it
simonpure•Jun 25, 2026
Hug of death
`
/api/hn -> 504 An error occurred with your deployment FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT cle1::c8vgv-1782399959042-aeba3cae05ff
`
aNapierkowski•Jun 25, 2026
yeah we killed it :(
jjordan•Jun 25, 2026
back in my day we called this a good ole' fashioned slashdotting.
lysace•Jun 25, 2026
Our startup (~20 people) got slashdotted in 1998 or so. I was the only one randomly awake at the time. Remember watching all the logs from our web server in realtime, ready to immediately kill anything or anyone threatening the overall availability.
512 kbps uplink, I think. Even accidental DoS was trivial. We had a self-hosted little data center at our office with the only available stupidly expensive commercial connection.
Felt some dread having to restart the main (async, single-process) web server a few times to keep things going due to bugs in our code. So many* people on dial-up patiently waiting for the page to load.
It was exhilarating though :).
*) Surely at least a hundred!
mysterydip•Jun 25, 2026
One of the things I love about HN is having stories like this in the comments from otherwise random unassuming usernames
Onavo•Jun 25, 2026
Its funny that these days the bottleneck is usually the data layer. Servers are so powerful now that even your average $5 server can handle HN levels of load if configured correctly.
docheinestages•Jun 25, 2026
If this project is an ad for their product (Upstash, promising "Highly Available, Infinitely Scalable"), then the last thing they'd want is a hug of death :/
ryan_n•Jun 25, 2026
Oof that would be hilarious/tragic
steve1977•Jun 25, 2026
Downstash
y1n0•Jun 25, 2026
Must stash
ytkimirti•Jun 25, 2026
We will be with you shortly :)
Roonerelli•Jun 25, 2026
I get
/api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Search entry should have an initialized schema, command was: [\"SEARCH.AGGREGATE\",\"hn\",\"{\\\"$or\\\":[{\\\"title\\\":{\\\"$eq\\\":\\\"anthropic\\\",\\\"$boost\\\":5}},{\\\"text\\\":{\\\"$eq\\\":\\\"anthropic\\\"}}]}\",\"{\\\"by_month\\\":{\\\"$dateHistogram\\\":{\\\"field\\\":\\\"time\\\",\\\"fixedInterval\\\":\\\"30d\\\"}},\\\"top_authors\\\":{\\\"$terms\\\":{\\\"field\\\":\\\"by\\\",\\\"size\\\":6}},\\\"by_type\\\":{\\\"$terms\\\":{\\\"field\\\":\\\"type\\\",\\\"size\\\":4}}}\"]"}
superxpro12•Jun 25, 2026
/api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Your database has been temporarily rate-limited, please contact support@upstash.com for further details."}
vachina•Jun 25, 2026
This is the only HN submission I ever upvoted because it is amazing
frankzero•Jun 25, 2026
I know right
fragmede•Jun 25, 2026
If more people spent time on /new looking for awesome stuff and vouching for dead items, HN would be a better place.
linmer•Jun 25, 2026
Has anyone tried to make some sort of algorithm to find cool stuff on HN or sort by upvotes etc? I know it's cool and intended that such things don't exist, but has anyone tried?
ytkimirti•Jun 25, 2026
Thanks, it was my first ever post here as well, would you look at that
scarecrw•Jun 25, 2026
Very cool!
I'd love to have some sort of normalization option to separate more subtle positive trends from the general increase in number of posts.
GL26•Jun 25, 2026
insane ! I don't know if it's possible but it would be huge if we had access to the localisation of the trends
But can it discover new trends without having to type the keywords?
flakiness•Jun 25, 2026
The example comparisons made me smile. Well done!
lazystar•Jun 25, 2026
nice. i guess AWS still had nothing to fear from GCP/Azure. ty for this
sinuhe69•Jun 25, 2026
IMO, using AI to assign keywords to a broader group of strict synonymous keywords would make the comparison much more helpful.
Because in general we want to know the trend of categories more than of a word, asking for “auto pilot” for ex. should include “self driving”, FSD etc.
marky1991•Jun 25, 2026
I would not like this. This is the kind of change that made google search so annoying. (Eg what if I want to track the history of 'self-driving' vs 'auto pilot' in sales pitches? Or more basically, what if the system wrongly interprets me wrongly?) Better to support | or similar old-fashioned search engine syntax and dwis and not dwim.
Pikamander2•Jun 25, 2026
Synonym functionality is good as long as there's an easy way to disable it, either globally or by wrapping the term in quotes.
cloudkj•Jun 25, 2026
This is great, I was just hoping to find a tool like this and specifically scoped to "Show HN" posts? Is there a way to do that?
ytkimirti•Jun 25, 2026
Great idea actually, I'll add that as well for sure
rightbyte•Jun 25, 2026
Nice. Is the data points y-axis normalized by total amount of comments at that time?
Edit:
Nvm seems like absolute count if you click the graph.
jdw64•Jun 25, 2026
COOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!
drchaim•Jun 25, 2026
too slow or broker right now
ytkimirti•Jun 25, 2026
We had to take the site down for a second, it'll be online in a few minutes. Thanks for trying it out
smalltorch•Jun 25, 2026
Reminds me of this side project I'm working on.
https://gitlab/here_forawhile/torum
It's a HN clone, that syncs with HN that allows you to basically establish smaller private communities who can discuss anything that's on HN without actually being on HN.
It also indexes and let's you search through the DB which I find is really useful to find things that peak my interest.
'peak' refers to the top of a thing, commonly mountains
smalltorch•Jun 25, 2026
*find things that align with my intrest peaks
joelres•Jun 25, 2026
Really beautiful, informative, and functional layout. Great work!
chris_money202•Jun 25, 2026
Love this, seems to struggle with newly indexed words. Will try again when the FP load is gone
arjie•Jun 25, 2026
One useful feature would be to normalize by total so that I can see changes in something as opposed to just total site growth. Right now I have to chart a single generic parameter but if I pick poorly it’ll confuse the issue.
apitman•Jun 25, 2026
I'd love to see the opposite as well, ie how much has HN grown over time.
jahala•Jun 25, 2026
Really cool! Where would you get the data for something like this? Is it open, or its scraped?
kaelyx•Jun 25, 2026
Hello, /api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Your database has been temporarily rate-limited, please contact support@upstash.com for further details."}
NooneAtAll3•Jun 25, 2026
I'd be interested in "google ngram for hacker news" instead
ytkimirti•Jun 25, 2026
What is missing from it? I've used ngrams as well and I this was partly inspired by that.
ProofHouse•Jun 25, 2026
Yup your upstash is rate limited
corv•Jun 25, 2026
The 'flash vs html5' chart looks strange juxtaposed with that conclusion
al_borland•Jun 25, 2026
There are a few technologies with pretty generic names which don’t lend themselves so well to this kind of trend analysis.
I was curious about Atom. According to the trend it’s still neck and neck with VS Code. But are people really talking about Atom the text editor that much still, or other types of atoms?
fg137•Jun 25, 2026
I think Google Trends is actually smart enough to suggest which topic you want to see for the same keywords -- it understands the semantics.
linmer•Jun 25, 2026
I think atom is no longer being developed, so it must not be a that popular topic. is that what you meant?
igcorreia•Jun 25, 2026
The colors of the lines of the big graph are inverted compared to the smaller ones.
bluecoconut•Jun 25, 2026
Very cool!
one subtle consistency bug that made it hard for me to interpret when I was clicking around: the small thumbnail plot vs the full plot often (always?) seem to use different colors.
The blue / orange gets assigned to the opposite labels in the A vs. B when you click, which made it confusing to understand.
mkgeorge7•Jun 25, 2026
This is actually very cool!
mkgeorge7•Jun 25, 2026
This is actually very cool@
SoKamil•Jun 25, 2026
Are those raw numbers or adjusted for active users at given point in time?
kpw94•Jun 25, 2026
The huge spike of "lk-99" in science & frontier tech is amusing...
This is cool concept, would love a positive/negative sentiment computed for each comment that refers to a given word, so you can see trends of "cloudflare (positive)" vs "cloudflare (negative)" where first one counts comments only if sentiment confidence is greater than say 0.6 and the other one counts comments only if sentiment is less than 0.4 (assuming [0,1] sentiment score)
k33n•Jun 25, 2026
This is quite useful at-a-glance
Aachen•Jun 25, 2026
Google Trends is about searches
This is about published text. More like if Google Trends counted word occurrences on webpages. Or if Google Ngrams counted webpages instead of books
People don't write much about non-newsworthy things whereas many people search "burger" anytime they want a burger delivery. The datasets aren't usable in the same way
Edit: not to say it's not a cool product! Just keep this in mind and enjoy using it :)
morkalork•Jun 25, 2026
Now if Algolia had a dataset of what people are searching for on HN that'd be it
Aachen•Jun 25, 2026
Was considering that as well, but I doubt that people use Algolia in the same way that they use Google
Aachen•Jun 25, 2026
Someone asked an imo good question (that I was going to vouch for, idk why it was dead), but deleted it. Not sure why, but so I'll not credit the username in case they don't want that and changed some words for stylometrics avoidance
> The concept seems pretty comparable. From the title I had a good idea of what it was; when clicking on it, the visual presentation felt familiar & intuitive. \n\n Being a little less literal can be useful!
That's why I'm pointing it out: the title leads you to think they're the same metric, the page looks visually similar, and so you treat it as the same data type; but when you read the data through this lens, you draw wrong conclusions. It took me a while, scrolling down the examples, before I realised why it felt so off and that my mindset is wrong. It's what's being written about currently, not what people on HN are actually looking for
It's indeed not about being nonliteral, it's for me about having been confused about the data being shown
john_strinlai•Jun 25, 2026
>Someone asked an imo good question but deleted it. Not sure why
it was me, and i deleted it because i realized my last sentence "being a little less literal can be useful" came across as unnecessarily blunt, which i didn't want. but i wasnt sure how to express what i wanted to say without it being that way. so i deleted it while rethinking my phrasing, and rethinking your comment.
in the end, i kind of came around to understand where you were coming from, so i didnt bother to recomment.
Aachen•Jun 25, 2026
Thanks! Didn't come across like that to me though, all good
linzhangrun•Jun 25, 2026
Great job! I've also been wanting to do similar statistics recently, wanting to know when LLMs becoming the absolute dominant topic on HN. Now it seems like half of the posts were about LLMs.
Do you mean it's not updated? You gotta sort by update_time column. Looks sorted, but you gotta sort it with a query like:
SELECT * FROM hackernews_history
ORDER BY update_time DESC
LIMIT 100;
And yeah, I got that from deepseek because I don't have a brain.
linmer•Jun 25, 2026
Thank you for providing this, you are a hero!!! I'm gonna try to do cool stuff with it!
GeoAtreides•Jun 25, 2026
oh hey, per HN terms and conditions I license my HN data only to HN. Can you please remove my data from the set? Thank you!
pelagicAustral•Jun 25, 2026
You must be fun at parties
moralestapia•Jun 25, 2026
By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.
@zX41ZdbW, you can safely ignore this guy.
@GeoAtreides, next time read the actual terms of service before hallucinating.
yes, and per HN terms and conditions only YC and YC affiliated (as you quoted) can use the api legally. I don't license my content to anyone else and so it shouldn't be use by anyone else, even if it's available on a free-for-all API (nice move HN, btw).
It's right there, you just have to click the link I shared ...
GeoAtreides•Jun 25, 2026
that's the license for the API, not the content/data the API serves
jupr•Jun 25, 2026
>including without limitation the rights
to use
'use'...arguably the sole purpose of the API is to fetch the data.
You are grasping at straws.
codingdave•Jun 25, 2026
> for any Y Combinator-related purpose
That is actually the key phrase. HN can provide the API, no problem. People can consume the API, no problem.. But I'd ask an attorney if API consumers can then re-release the data for purposes not related to YC. By my reading, they cannot.
While a literal reading of the MIT license refers to "software", many datasets have been released under it.
In particular, if someone releases something that is only a dataset along with an MIT license file, the most reasonable interpretation is that the rights holder intended to release the data under the terms of that license.
I looked for copyright cases involving this specific distinction, whether "data" versus "software" makes a legal difference, but didn’t find anything.
So the question remains open (for you, for me it's pretty clear the dataset is released under MIT).
You might want to sue and find out. It sounds like an interesting experiment.
linmer•Jun 25, 2026
Wait, so I have to ask for every single person's permissions to use this data?
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
snowwrestler•Jun 25, 2026
Not sure if joking, but if this product is not republishing the text of your contributions (to which you hold copyright), you’re probably not going to convince a court to do anything here.
Generally speaking it is not a violation to scrape, index, and analyze web content as long as you don’t republish copyrighted content without a license, or violate access controls. For example: search engine indexes.
jtolmar•Jun 25, 2026
It looks like some of these terms aren't indexed (or the site is just too hug of deathed right now), but I'd like to see the graph of like, social media, iot, cryptocurrency, ai.
Almost all of the major vulnerability and hack are just single spikes at the time it happened and it tails off after that… except Stuxnet. Stuxnet is was much more interesting that most other attacks since it was very political and openly published. Of course, the thing that attack was about is still a news headline today as well
ltrg•Jun 25, 2026
It would be super interesting to see if HN mentions serve as a leading indicator of company performance/valuations -- I wouldn't be surprised.
thomasgeelens•Jun 25, 2026
oeeh hug of death, congrats!
stopachka•Jun 25, 2026
Nice! Would love a brief explanation of the infrastructure. I see the Powered by "Upstash Redish Search", but why choose Upstash Redis Search vs something else?
chfritz•Jun 25, 2026
great idea! Now, you are running into the same issue Google Trends had to solve: term disambiguation. For instance, "atom" is ambiguous in a comparison of editors like this: https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=sublime&q=atom&q=vscode. Given LLMs it might be possible to use an embedding vector (with context) instead of a text string for indexing, and if you do, this problem might go away.
Insanity•Jun 25, 2026
This looks quite nice! But suspiciously absent data points.. no Java or Go for the languages? Seems odd. No Amazon in companies, yet I think it's often mentioned.
I wondered if "go" got filtered out because it's also just a regular word.
Either way, very cool!
linmer•Jun 25, 2026
Cool! I want to suggest something, Imagine I want to got to a specific date where some topic was hot, I can read it from your website and then go to that date. But it would be better if I could click on some sort of button, or on the points on the graph to go to that date. It would be easy to implement, you just need links like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-05-24
jazzpush2•Jun 25, 2026
This is a great project. It'd be fun to look at some of the more popular startups over time, both those that ended up successful and those that didn't.
joe_the_user•Jun 25, 2026
The topic comparisons are pretty boring and search is disabled. Perhaps I'll remember to return to this. But I can't think of much it gives that plain Google nGram viewer doesn't.
For some reason the results cut off at 2018-10 even though "Popular Comparisons" preview shows more.
aberrahmane_b•Jun 25, 2026
Great project.The popular comparisons are probably the most useful part because they show the relay race between tools pretty clearly.
One thing I’d like to see is normalization by total HN activity over time.
nailer•Jun 25, 2026
> API design, era by era: REST becomes the web's default 2012–15, then the post-REST generation splits: gRPC for service-to-service from 2016, GraphQL for the client from 2017.
No. Looking at the diagram, REST is the default until 2017, GraphQL is briefly popular around early 2020s, then the web resturns to REST.
Petersipoi•Jun 25, 2026
It's funny how "trump" dwarfs just about any other term. Truly a hacker forum.
jianfenglin•Jun 25, 2026
Glad to see that the raw data is also shared. Very cool, but why the openai vs anthropic graph has no data post 2019?
ytkimirti•Jun 25, 2026
Yeah we had to refill the dataset due to an error, it will be fixed in a few minutes
titzer•Jun 25, 2026
I don't see any data for anything past 2019.
dacox•Jun 25, 2026
very cool! not sure if something is broken, but there seems to be no data past 2019 on any of the queries that i can see
WhitneyLand•Jun 25, 2026
First great work.
Reminds that I wish there was a modern way to do this for the words people speak and write online with. I want to literally know when people started putting literally twice in sentences.
Ngram seems is out of date a piece meal. Now Corpus seems like they try but UX terrible.
upmostly•Jun 25, 2026
Looking at this makes me think HN is peak design aesthetic.
maxignol•Jun 25, 2026
Funny one x)
Though I ain’t sure if even more data is useful on hackernews
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This was a small project of mine after I've found out that I can simply the whole hackernews archive (~48GB) and play around with it.
You can compare terms just like in google trends and you can also see the exact posts & comments from that time.
I like that you can discover what went crazy in the timeline, they just come up as small burst of activity, it's quite fun to play around with it. https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=litecoin&q=dogecoin&q=solana...
I also have a seperate page for the "Who is Hiring?" posts, here is the distribution of programming languages over each monthly "Who is hiring?" post in HN ever. https://hackernewstrends.com/who-is-hiring
Any kind of feedback is welcome.
Where is this archive located you speak of?
A minor suggestion - I'd like to be able to render the current graph taller (full height of my browser window).
Also some sentiment analysis on the "people" graphs would be very insightful (particularly for the likes of Edward Snowdon, Julian Assange, Elon Musk and Sam Altman). Perhaps colour the area under the graph red-orange-green based on the sentiment?
The sentiment analysis is very interesting, I can do that easily. Could be a new page as well. Did you see this anywhere else or just your idea?
Currently it says "no job-post mentions in this window" for everything. Transient error?
I am really liking the trend for "linux": https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=linux
https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=linux&q=windows
` /api/hn -> 504 An error occurred with your deployment FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT cle1::c8vgv-1782399959042-aeba3cae05ff `
512 kbps uplink, I think. Even accidental DoS was trivial. We had a self-hosted little data center at our office with the only available stupidly expensive commercial connection.
Felt some dread having to restart the main (async, single-process) web server a few times to keep things going due to bugs in our code. So many* people on dial-up patiently waiting for the page to load.
It was exhilarating though :).
*) Surely at least a hundred!
/api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Search entry should have an initialized schema, command was: [\"SEARCH.AGGREGATE\",\"hn\",\"{\\\"$or\\\":[{\\\"title\\\":{\\\"$eq\\\":\\\"anthropic\\\",\\\"$boost\\\":5}},{\\\"text\\\":{\\\"$eq\\\":\\\"anthropic\\\"}}]}\",\"{\\\"by_month\\\":{\\\"$dateHistogram\\\":{\\\"field\\\":\\\"time\\\",\\\"fixedInterval\\\":\\\"30d\\\"}},\\\"top_authors\\\":{\\\"$terms\\\":{\\\"field\\\":\\\"by\\\",\\\"size\\\":6}},\\\"by_type\\\":{\\\"$terms\\\":{\\\"field\\\":\\\"type\\\",\\\"size\\\":4}}}\"]"}
I'd love to have some sort of normalization option to separate more subtle positive trends from the general increase in number of posts.
Hmm, did I break something?
https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=Nim&q=Rust&q=Zig
Because in general we want to know the trend of categories more than of a word, asking for “auto pilot” for ex. should include “self driving”, FSD etc.
Edit: Nvm seems like absolute count if you click the graph.
https://gitlab/here_forawhile/torum
It's a HN clone, that syncs with HN that allows you to basically establish smaller private communities who can discuss anything that's on HN without actually being on HN.
It also indexes and let's you search through the DB which I find is really useful to find things that peak my interest.
'peak' refers to the top of a thing, commonly mountains
I was curious about Atom. According to the trend it’s still neck and neck with VS Code. But are people really talking about Atom the text editor that much still, or other types of atoms?
one subtle consistency bug that made it hard for me to interpret when I was clicking around: the small thumbnail plot vs the full plot often (always?) seem to use different colors.
The blue / orange gets assigned to the opposite labels in the A vs. B when you click, which made it confusing to understand.
This is cool concept, would love a positive/negative sentiment computed for each comment that refers to a given word, so you can see trends of "cloudflare (positive)" vs "cloudflare (negative)" where first one counts comments only if sentiment confidence is greater than say 0.6 and the other one counts comments only if sentiment is less than 0.4 (assuming [0,1] sentiment score)
This is about published text. More like if Google Trends counted word occurrences on webpages. Or if Google Ngrams counted webpages instead of books
People don't write much about non-newsworthy things whereas many people search "burger" anytime they want a burger delivery. The datasets aren't usable in the same way
Edit: not to say it's not a cool product! Just keep this in mind and enjoy using it :)
> The concept seems pretty comparable. From the title I had a good idea of what it was; when clicking on it, the visual presentation felt familiar & intuitive. \n\n Being a little less literal can be useful!
That's why I'm pointing it out: the title leads you to think they're the same metric, the page looks visually similar, and so you treat it as the same data type; but when you read the data through this lens, you draw wrong conclusions. It took me a while, scrolling down the examples, before I realised why it felt so off and that my mindset is wrong. It's what's being written about currently, not what people on HN are actually looking for
It's indeed not about being nonliteral, it's for me about having been confused about the data being shown
it was me, and i deleted it because i realized my last sentence "being a little less literal can be useful" came across as unnecessarily blunt, which i didn't want. but i wasnt sure how to express what i wanted to say without it being that way. so i deleted it while rethinking my phrasing, and rethinking your comment.
in the end, i kind of came around to understand where you were coming from, so i didnt bother to recomment.
So you can create any sort of similar services in a single SQL query and an HTML page.
I also hosted it as a publicly accessible data lake, which you can query from everywhere: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/29693#issuec...
It is also updated in real-time.
SELECT * FROM hackernews_history
ORDER BY update_time DESC
LIMIT 100;
And yeah, I got that from deepseek because I don't have a brain.
@zX41ZdbW, you can safely ignore this guy.
@GeoAtreides, next time read the actual terms of service before hallucinating.
is zX41ZdbW either?
I didn't consider you might now know about:
https://github.com/hackernews/api
It's right there, you just have to click the link I shared ...
'use'...arguably the sole purpose of the API is to fetch the data.
You are grasping at straws.
That is actually the key phrase. HN can provide the API, no problem. People can consume the API, no problem.. But I'd ask an attorney if API consumers can then re-release the data for purposes not related to YC. By my reading, they cannot.
https://opensource.org/license/mit
In particular, if someone releases something that is only a dataset along with an MIT license file, the most reasonable interpretation is that the rights holder intended to release the data under the terms of that license.
I looked for copyright cases involving this specific distinction, whether "data" versus "software" makes a legal difference, but didn’t find anything.
So the question remains open (for you, for me it's pretty clear the dataset is released under MIT).
You might want to sue and find out. It sounds like an interesting experiment.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Generally speaking it is not a violation to scrape, index, and analyze web content as long as you don’t republish copyrighted content without a license, or violate access controls. For example: search engine indexes.
The transition between crypto and ai on the graphs is already pretty funny. https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=crypto&q=chatgpt
I wondered if "go" got filtered out because it's also just a regular word.
Either way, very cool!
For some reason the results cut off at 2018-10 even though "Popular Comparisons" preview shows more.
One thing I’d like to see is normalization by total HN activity over time.
No. Looking at the diagram, REST is the default until 2017, GraphQL is briefly popular around early 2020s, then the web resturns to REST.
Reminds that I wish there was a modern way to do this for the words people speak and write online with. I want to literally know when people started putting literally twice in sentences.
Ngram seems is out of date a piece meal. Now Corpus seems like they try but UX terrible.