Thanks, I appreciate it. Descriptions are on my TODO list, but have been on the back burner in favor of more projects. I will have to bump up their priority.
Just the position unfortunately, I would need to scrape the site itself in order to get comments and points info. It would be awesome if that data was added to the RSS feed
Fixed the .org domain, thanks for pointing that out.
You actually _can_ look at up to the past 12 hours if you change the URL manually, but I have found the graph to be less useful from 6-12 hours
How much data were you looking at when the iPad crashed? I use this daily on the new iPad and havent experienced any problems unless there was a ton of data on the screen
I built this site as a weekend project to teach myself Django. It turned out to be a pretty interesting way to visually view how stories rise and fall on HN over the course of the day.
I am planning to do some more analysis of the data soon and add more features to the site. Any suggestions of useful metrics would be helpful.
http://socialcens.us is a side project I've been working on a little. It is a pretty simple app that aggregates a bunch of data from all of your facebook friends and gives you a nice report. Also, a nice excuse to use Mongodb.