The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss

For posterity, here's a spreadsheet of all Daring Fireball submissions to HN, sorted chronologically: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A7ljmWbHtFsB4VRJ1Q0d...

From first glance there's still some decent traffic on Daring Fireball submissions, even inside the times Gruber asserts deadweighting.

Cool! Made me want to try building it in Quadratic because you can tie the live data source into the spreadsheet.

I didn’t use the more comprehensive dataset in big query [1] and I didn't use the firebase API [2] either because it's so much data to go through. Instead I used the Algolia search API [3] because it was easy ha.

The resulting charts [4] are, if nothing else, interesting to look at and on first glance similar to what I see in the og google sheet.

Disclosure: I work on Quadratic and this was a good exercise in using the product (and finding bugs). The spreadsheet is available to look at publicly [5]

[1] https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-...

[2] https://github.com/HackerNews/API?tab=readme-ov-file

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/api

[4] https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a97ba432-d6dd-4d1...

[5] https://app.quadratichq.com/file/033d2fa7-b205-4c27-9fce-247...