Track HN
about
Track HN (track-hacker-news.com) is a project to track, archive, visualize and analyze data from Hacker News.
Created by Nami W.
features
- complete and up-to-date dataset
- score, rank and comments count history
- additional data like URL HTTP status
- API service
- interactive dashboard
live data demo - story score and rank history
*: data available for stories submitted after April 2024
browser extension
I’ve created a browser extension to add score/rank history chart to HN website.
dashboards
I’ve publicized several dashboards to help analyze the data, here are some of them:
Stories Data Overview
Single Story Analysis
components & stacks
This projects consists of several components, some are WIP. I’m working on publishing and open sourcing most of them.
a service to track data and provide API
a database to store and search data
dashboards built with Retool
a browser extension to add score/rank history chart to HN website
an automate twitter/x bot to tweet about latest top stories
posts/reports
- Track HN: analyze the survival rate of 120,396 Show HN stories (June 2023)
- Track HN: Score and Rank History (plus My Nocode Experiences)
help needed
I’m inviting sponsorship for computing and database resources to host a medium-load web application. I’m also open to explore other data analysis/visualization solutions. If you are interested, please contact me.