Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments

5 hours ago

Hacker Trends visualizes the frequency of topics, tools, or people on Hacker News using interactive charts.
The tool overlays multiple terms to track their popularity trends over time across 45 million posts and comments.
Users can explore underlying stories and comments, filterable by term or author, below each chart.
The platform is built on Upstash Redis Search and showcases historical tech industry rivalries and shifts.
Examples include cloud platform rivalries (Cloudflare vs. Vercel), AI model surges (OpenAI vs. Anthropic), and hardware trends (AMD vs. Nvidia).
It highlights generational changes in technologies like frontend frameworks, databases, and programming languages.
The tool captures rapid shifts in developer tools, crypto exchanges, and emerging trends like text-to-image AI.
It illustrates how communities migrate between tools, such as text editors (Vim to Neovim) and bundlers (Webpack to Vite).
Hacker Trends also tracks broader industry movements, from containerization to CI/CD tools and API design trends.
The data reflects tech hype cycles, including face computers, voice assistants, and cryptocurrency manias over the years.

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