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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderThis site and the spotify playlists that it makes, has rekindled my interest in music after being dormant for more than a decade. Never expected that computer generated playlists could be good. Highly recommended.
Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 3,294 genres by Spotify as of 2019-07-29. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier. Lots of other cool Spotify-scraping projects by the author at the bottom.
They also wrote a blog post on being laid off here: https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473
a shame the guys at Spotify didn't secure them some kind of access so they could still update it
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 856
- Total comments
- 250
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