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4318 sats \ 14 comments \ @SimpleStacker 4 Nov meta

Something I worked on over the weekend ^_^

It shows the largest connected component of the network generated from Stacker News posts, connected via internal SN links.

(Posts not connected to this largest connected component are not included)

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4 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 4 Nov

I'm especially proud of the spiraling effect, which I accomplished using a compression algorithm to push nodes out from the center and pull them inwards from the outer rim, and then creating a spiral effect so make the overall graph more circular.

It went from this:

To this:

143 sats \ 0 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 4 Nov

~Stacker_Sports is an island and ~HealthAndFitness is relegated to “other”

Oof @grayruby @Undisciplined @Aardvark

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 4 Nov

Awesome, nice work! Are ~Stacker_Sports and ~AI out on the edges because they don't connect as well with the other territorys?

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 4 Nov

Yeah I think so. ~AI has multiple clusters of points due to @optimism's weekly summary posts, each one generates one of these clusters.

~Stacker_Sports tends to have these long chains because I think they run a lot of contests with update posts that reference the previous post.

~science's daily puzzles also led to this effect

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 5 Nov

Cool! One day I'll get those started again. One day...

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @rootmachine 20h

Looks super interesting and fun. I feel like a newbie, each time I see some coding done around here. I am far of that domain.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb 5 Nov

There’s some t-shirts opportunities in there for sure.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko 5 Nov

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/cytoscape@3.27.0/dist/cytoscape.min.js"></script>

I love standalone htmls with getting javascript from CDN. It's such a simple yet powerful way to create ad-hoc documents.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @2053456d48 5 Nov

Wow looks amazing!

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 4 Nov

Cool! What's the toolchain?

27 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 4 Nov

python, networkx, and pygraphviz to build the graph and node positions.

A custom algorithm to create the spiraling effect

just html and cytoscape to create the app

hosted on github pages

I used AI to help me out a lot. Most of the index.html was built by ChatGPT/Claude, but I did have to do a lot of customization afterwards.

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @falsefaucet 4 Nov

really cool visual representation of the site!

thought this was kinda ironic, uppermost node with only one connection that you could say, unravels from there to the rest and its a post about a circle puzzle

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 4 Nov

Haha what a fun coincidence

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Sandman 4 Nov

That's a nice work there!