31 comments

  • kaelyx 26 minutes ago
    Hello, /api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Your database has been temporarily rate-limited, please contact support@upstash.com for further details."}
  • simonpure 1 hour ago
    Hug of death

    ` /api/hn -> 504 An error occurred with your deployment FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT cle1::c8vgv-1782399959042-aeba3cae05ff `

    • superxpro12 38 minutes ago
      /api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Your database has been temporarily rate-limited, please contact support@upstash.com for further details."}
      • esafak 32 minutes ago
        A cache would help.
    • docheinestages 51 minutes ago
      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 48 minutes ago
        Oof that would be hilarious/tragic
      • steve1977 38 minutes ago
        Downstash
        • y1n0 22 minutes ago
          Must stash
    • Roonerelli 39 minutes ago
      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}}}\"]"}

    • jjordan 54 minutes ago
      back in my day we called this a good ole' fashioned slashdotting.
      • lysace 42 minutes ago
        Our little startup got slashdotted in 1998 or so. I was the only one randomly awake at the time. Remember watching all the logs from our poor little 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 :).

      • Onavo 37 minutes ago
        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.
    • ytkimirti 50 minutes ago
      We will be with you shortly :)
    • aNapierkowski 1 hour ago
      yeah we killed it :(
  • bluecoconut 5 minutes ago
    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.

  • smalltorch 46 minutes ago
    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.

  • arjie 38 minutes ago
    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.
  • igcorreia 5 minutes ago
    The colors of the lines of the big graph are inverted compared to the smaller ones.
  • corv 20 minutes ago
    The 'flash vs html5' chart looks strange juxtaposed with that conclusion
  • sinuhe69 54 minutes ago
    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 33 minutes ago
      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 23 minutes ago
        Synonym functionality is good as long as there's an easy way to disable it, either globally or by wrapping the term in quotes.
  • dom96 58 minutes ago
    Very cool idea. Shows programming language trends pretty well.

    https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=Nim&q=Rust&q=Zig

  • cloudkj 54 minutes ago
    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 41 minutes ago
      Great idea actually, I'll add that as well for sure
  • ytkimirti 46 minutes ago
    We had to take the site down for a second, it'll be online in a few minutes. Thanks for trying it out
  • scarecrw 1 hour ago
    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.

  • NooneAtAll3 22 minutes ago
    I'd be interested in "google ngram for hacker news" instead
    • ytkimirti 3 minutes ago
      What is missing from it? I've used ngrams as well and I this was partly inspired by that.
  • jahala 30 minutes ago
    Really cool! Where would you get the data for something like this? Is it open, or its scraped?
  • ytkimirti 1 hour ago
    Hello HN,

    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.

    • jupr 53 minutes ago
      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.

      Where is this archive located you speak of?

    • cbeach 47 minutes ago
      This is excellent.

      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 1 minute ago
        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?

  • rightbyte 52 minutes ago
    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.

  • NoSalt 1 hour ago
    Woah, great work!

    I am really liking the trend for "linux": https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=linux

  • chris_money202 43 minutes ago
    Love this, seems to struggle with newly indexed words. Will try again when the FP load is gone
  • flakiness 56 minutes ago
    The example comparisons made me smile. Well done!
  • joelres 45 minutes ago
    Really beautiful, informative, and functional layout. Great work!
  • docheinestages 57 minutes ago
    But can it discover new trends without having to type the keywords?
  • ProofHouse 20 minutes ago
    Yup your upstash is rate limited
  • GL26 1 hour ago
    insane ! I don't know if it's possible but it would be huge if we had access to the localisation of the trends
  • drchaim 48 minutes ago
    too slow or broker right now
  • lazystar 56 minutes ago
    nice. i guess AWS still had nothing to fear from GCP/Azure. ty for this
  • jdw64 51 minutes ago
    COOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!
  • vachina 1 hour ago
    This is the only HN submission I ever upvoted because it is amazing
    • ytkimirti 39 minutes ago
      Thanks, it was my first ever post here as well, would you look at that
    • fragmede 44 minutes ago
      If more people spent time on /new looking for awesome stuff and vouching for dead items, HN would be a better place.
    • frankzero 59 minutes ago
      I know right
  • clacker-o-matic 1 hour ago
    ooh this is sick! really nice ui too!
  • some_furry 1 hour ago
  • oystersauce8 1 hour ago
    love it
  • JFGAi 28 minutes ago
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