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Re:Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News by sant0sk1 on Sunday June 19, 2011 @05:15PM (#2671922)
I was surprised to learn that the search API returns hits on usernames when they appear outside of the post/comment content.

I'm looking now to see if there's an easy way to filter around it. I've also been emailing with one of the ThriftDB guys and I'll ask him as well.

If not, it'd be very difficult to filter those out because I'm not currently (nor would I want to) retrieving all the matching items, just the number of hits.

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Re:Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News by solipsist on Sunday June 19, 2011 @05:18PM (#2671927)
Oh yes, I forgot you were using the HNSearch API. By the way, I hope you win the API Contest (don't they decide tomorrow?). You for sure get my vote!
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Re:Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News by sant0sk1 on Sunday June 19, 2011 @05:22PM (#2671938)
Awesome, thanks! The voting starts tomorrow. Do come back and participate ;)
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Re:Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News by qF on Monday June 20, 2011 @05:42AM (#2673518)
This is actually pretty easy to do! You can apply weights to fields, so just apply 0.0 to the username field - or that's how I did it anyway.

Your entry looks very nice, cool to see others had a similar idea. :)

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