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How HN reacted

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Curious

points: 84
comments: 28
in 2019: Top 27%

Mostly questions and neutral comments

The thread, comment by comment

3 positive, 10 neutral or mixed, 3 critical. Score +0.09

In their words

LikedFun to explore keyword comparisons over time

ObjectedSearch matches non-language meanings of words like Go

Summaries made by AI from the thread.

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84points

28comments

#574of 2,195 in 2019

Top 27%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

3 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.

Execution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

Fun to explore keyword comparisons over time
From 3 comments
- that is a lot of fun. Looks like Intel wins the most mentions relative to AMD and ARM :-)…
  ChuckMcM on HN
- https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=depression%2Csuicide&f=title&s=text&m=frac_items&t=year ... changing that to quarterly sure is telling about when…
  KenanSulayman on HN
- that's really a nice comparison feature https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=show+hn%2C+ask+hn&f=title&s=text&m=frac_items&t=year…
  trpc on HN
Comparison feature is useful
From 2 comments
- that's really a nice comparison feature https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=show+hn%2C+ask+hn&f=title&s=text&m=frac_items&t=year…
  trpc on HN
- Ask vs Show is interesting: https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=Show%2C+Ask&f=title&s=text&m=frac_items&t=year
  bberenberg on HN

Objections

Search matches non-language meanings of words like Go
From 2 comments
- The search for "Go" is actually quite inaccurate due to the verb "go" and the game "go". You can see most of the peaks have top stories related to non-language uses of the word.…
  nibnalin on HN
- The 2nd and 3rd top "Go" posts weren't even about Go the language. They were just posts with the word go in the title.
  McDev on HN
Breaks the back button
From 1 comment
- Breaks the back button.
  smrq on HN

Alternatives named

hnprofile.com, a related tool by the same author for profiling HN users
From 1 comment
- This guy has a ton of interesting posts: https://toddwschneider.com/ For those who wish to compare trends (across all of HN not just the front page), a demo of my companies…
  citilife on HN