What's hot on Hacker News?
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What's hot on Hacker News?
thanks for the feedback, I should probably gather the row height of HN dynamically instead of having a…
patrick-wied.atHow HN took it
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
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.
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What HN said
What people liked
Nice visualization idea and site design
From 3 comments
I really like the idea. It's a nice way to go to what "probably" are the most interesting topics when you don't have much time. I think that being able to click directly on the…
Kesty on HNLove the site design, has some serious impact. Any tools/software used when doing that design or was it just notepad? By the way, your heatmap download contains a .png that takes…
brador on HNWonderful work. Frankly speaking, I have some similar idea the other day, what i thought then was to collect the top news. I have the habits to read HN news everyday, mostly…
wxl24life on HN
Objections
Heatmap is offset by some pixels and row height is hardcoded
From 2 comments
Look cool, two comments: - The heatmap is sometimes off some pixels, see http://imgur.com/FyqOG - It's not possible to click links any more after applying the heatmap. This…
NiekvdMaas on HNthanks for the feedback, I should probably gather the row height of HN dynamically instead of having a hardcoded value that seems to work for my devices g You should be able to…
pa7 on HN
Links not clickable while heatmap is shown
From 2 comments
Look cool, two comments: - The heatmap is sometimes off some pixels, see http://imgur.com/FyqOG - It's not possible to click links any more after applying the heatmap. This…
NiekvdMaas on HNI really like the idea. It's a nice way to go to what "probably" are the most interesting topics when you don't have much time. I think that being able to click directly on the…
Kesty on HN
Highlights seem random because it only uses front page data
From 2 comments
Nice concept, unfortunately you get some strange results if you apply it to the new page (where I think it would have a much better use): http://i.imgur.com/afSPm.jpg Is there a…
dazbradbury on HNthere is a reason but it's rather incompleteness than an actual bug. the current version of the script only visualizes the posts of the front page.
pa7 on HN
Fails with a 500 error for some users
From 1 comment
Doesn't seem to work for me. I see an 500 error in the Chrome console. http://api.ihackernews.com/page?format=jsonp&callback=hmap.jsonp
Grepsy on HN
Requests
Click links directly on the heatmap without closing it
From 1 comment
I really like the idea. It's a nice way to go to what "probably" are the most interesting topics when you don't have much time. I think that being able to click directly on the…
Kesty on HN
Remove the large png from the download
From 1 comment
Love the site design, has some serious impact. Any tools/software used when doing that design or was it just notepad? By the way, your heatmap download contains a .png that takes…
brador on HN
Limit or expire old data points in heatmap
From 1 comment
Just wanted to say that I think your Heatmap.js plugin is awesome and I've used it extensively in a school project last semester. I have one question about it. Is there a feature…
lopatin on HN
Questions
What does hot mean and how does it work
From 2 comments
What does it do? What does "hot" mean? I think it would be great if you could answer these questions in very briefly on the site.
DrJokepu on HNSo how does it work?
chewxy on HN
Alternatives named
Social Hotness Chrome extension
From 1 comment
If you find this interesting, you may also like this Chrome extension: http://github.com/wuzhe/social-hotness
btw0 on HN