Hacker News n-gram viewer.
Google’s Ngram Viewer, but for Hacker News posts and comments.
In true HN style, it’s fully open-source at jchook/hngram. Also hosted at hngram.com.
It answers questions like “When did everyone stop saying Web 2.0?” or “When did Rust become more talked-about than Python?”
What is an n-gram?
An n-gram is just a phrase with n words. So, “Harambe” is a 1-gram, “Void Linux” is a 2-gram, and “root of all evil” is a 4-gram.
HNgram supports up to 5-grams.
Optimizations
It was challenging to work with a dataset of this size. I did a lot of fun optimizations with this project that I’d love to write about, but that will have to be on another day.
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