Comment by aeonfox
I've been building a pretty visualisation of HN. You can see this Ask HN on this link: https://hackernews.life/?s=top&id=45561428&c=0
If you zoom out it's meant to look something like a thermal vent with cellular life. Rank and karma cause the cells to bio-illuminate. Each cell is a submission, each organelle is a comment thread, and every shape represents a live connection to the Firebase HN API. It also has features to search, filter, and go back in time as far as the backend has been running.
It's been a passion project of mine. My little Temple OS. And I'll keep adding little features that please me.
Some people have been having fun with the timeline, so here's how this Ask HN started:
https://hackernews.life/?s=top&id=45561428&c=0&t=1760303616
You can press the fast forward button or drag the slider to the right watch it evolve.