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Show HN: A look at the last 100 years of innovation

Posted by dan_ahmadi on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:01AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://a-century-compressed.vercel.app/

It feels like innovation/change is increasing at a breakneck speed these days. I was wondering... how does the current pace compare to the last 10, 20, or 100 years? I pulled together some of our biggest milestones as humans and created a light visualization tool to explore it.Disclosures: AI was used in creating this, including the researchCode is open source:...

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This is fantastic, thanks for sharing it
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In case you haven't seen -- a lot of the companies listed on this page are small teams: http://graphql.org/users/
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