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The Small Web is Huge [video]
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Show HN: Visualization of Top News Stories
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This is a live news-visualization tool inspired by Digg Labs’ 2006-2010 experiments, rebuilt to combine Hacker News, Reddit, RSS and Atom feeds, prediction markets, and other sources. Users can customize the feed list, share a link that preserves it, and compare stories using scores normalized across sources. Headlines link to the stories, while score links lead to discussions when available. The interface offers three views: Bigspy streams headlines in order of activity; Stack turns each story into a column whose height and color indicate heat; and Swarm represents stories as circles that grow with activity and connect when they appear to share an audience.
The display also flags breaking news when similar headlines appear across multiple sources in one refresh, highlighting the matching stories in red. Hovering over a story reveals a sparkline built from scores recorded during the current session, allowing viewers to track momentum over time; this history resets when the page reloads. In Swarm, simulated “diggers” create the audience connections because feeds do not provide individual voter data. A screensaver mode removes interface controls, fills the screen, and rotates among the visualizations, making the tool suitable for a wall display. The result is both a customizable news dashboard and an animated way to spot trending or cross-source stories.
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