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Visualizing Hacker News comments with d3.js is a tool that displays Hacker News discussion threads as interactive visual maps using d3.js, a data visualization library. It transforms comment threads into graphical… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Visualizing Hacker News comments with d3.js launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Web site created using create-react-app

    2020 · showcase.metamate.io · its alternatives →

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    Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.

    Jun 2026 · hackernewstrends.com · its alternatives →

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    Accessible end-to-end deep dive of crawling, embedding, projecting, and semantic searching all of Hacker News for my Hackerverse project.

    2024 · blog.wilsonl.in · its alternatives →

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    2011 · jmarbach.com · its alternatives →

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    2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →

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    2015 · news.ycombniator.com · its alternatives →

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    2013 · jasondavies.com · its alternatives →

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    Sometimes I want to make sure I read every comment in a Thread. Also comments that come in later. For example, when I posted my laptop comparison map I got a ton of great feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8405065 and I wanted to make sure I don't miss any of these. For this purpose, I made this visual representation: http://social.gnod.com/hn:8405065 I think you can grok what it shows. It simply templates all comments in a recursive way. Read items turn blue. You can mark interesting items and they turn green. I find it interesting to look at…

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    A bookmarklet for generating heatmaps showing interesting stories on the hackernews front page

    2012 · patrick-wied.at · its alternatives →

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    Hacker News trend visualization

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    2024 · public.tableau.com · its alternatives →

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    2022 · v20.ohayo.computer · its alternatives →

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    I made a little website with a server that collects only HN submissions with > 500 upvotes chronologically. https://hn.moritz.pm/ It's quite simple because I wanted to learn from the project. But I think it's useful, to get a summary of what was important over the last days. The UI is almost identical to the HN frontpage, you can click on the comments to view the thread and on the username to see the profile. The rest of the cards takes you to the submitted URL.

    2024 · hn.moritz.pm · its alternatives →

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    Did you want to know topics of the news or popularity of posts? "Hacker News Hack" helps you to find news based on some categories and importance or popularity. It tagged news with 9 categories with a natural language processing technology and supervised learning for categorizing news. It also calculates a speed of number of comments in each posts as popularity based on term, that is 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year.

    2014 · newshack.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, we developed a tool that can easily tell you the overall sentiment of a message based on a word. For now it’s hacker news only but we think this thing has potential. Whether you’re a startup, solopreneur or product manager, you can track trends with it. We are also planning to add predictive tools and real time analysis. Operationally this tool is a lot cheaper than Sprout Social or other similar solutions on the market. No sign-up required. Just type and see results. I'd love your feedback on the tool's usefulness and any ideas for improvement.

    2024 · classysoftware.io · its alternatives →

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    Experiments in expressing statistical thinking with interactive design

    2015 · r2d3.us · its alternatives →

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