Visualizations & maps

Visualizations & maps that Hacker News readers keep rediscovering.

Hall of Fame: 25
Candidates: 21
Topics: 13
Median span: 7.7 yrs

Topics in Visualizations & maps

13 topics

Space & transportation 11 links 5 Hall · 6 Candidates Mathematics & science 10 links 6 Hall · 4 Candidates Culture & media 4 links 2 Hall · 2 Candidates Society & policy 4 links 3 Hall · 1 Candidates Economics & business 3 links 2 Hall · 1 Candidates History & humanities 3 links 2 Hall · 1 Candidates Web & internet 3 links 1 Hall · 2 Candidates AI & data 2 links 1 Hall · 1 Candidates Computer science 2 links 2 Hall · 0 Candidates Education & learning 1 link 0 Hall · 1 Candidates Environment & energy 1 link 0 Hall · 1 Candidates Security & privacy 1 link 1 Hall · 0 Candidates Software engineering 1 link 0 Hall · 1 Candidates

Strongest Hall records

25 items

If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)

joshworth.com Tools, games & demos 31 submissions · 30 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2025-06-13

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Submarine Cable Map

www.submarinecablemap.com Tools, games & demos 30 submissions · 30 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2025-09-07

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The True Size Of Countries: Mercator projection

thetruesize.com Tools, games & demos 21 submissions · 20 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-11 Resurfaced 2025-04-26

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What did Earth look like X million years ago?

dinosaurpictures.org Tools, games & demos 25 submissions · 23 people · 7.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-09 Resurfaced 2023-08-08

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Raft Visualization

thesecretlivesofdata.com Tools, games & demos 29 submissions · 29 people · 10.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-08 Resurfaced 2024-09-27

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North American Regional Dialects and Accents (2016)

aschmann.net Tools, games & demos 11 submissions · 11 people · 15.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-09 Resurfaced 2026-04-16

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Every Noise at Once

everynoise.com Tools, games & demos 21 submissions · 21 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2024-01-23

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100k Stars

stars.chromeexperiments.com Tools, games & demos 13 submissions · 13 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-05 Resurfaced 2024-05-10

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Visualizing Algorithms (2014)

bost.ocks.org Tools, games & demos 15 submissions · 15 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-07 Resurfaced 2022-07-01

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WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)

wtfhappenedin1971.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2025-01-15

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The Deep Sea

neal.fun Tools, games & demos 22 submissions · 22 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-06 Resurfaced 2024-11-19

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Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time

shademap.app Tools, games & demos 16 submissions · 13 people · 4.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-05 Resurfaced 2024-05-31

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Open Infrastructure Map

openinframap.org Tools, games & demos 12 submissions · 12 people · 7.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-08

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Principal Component Analysis Explained Visually (2015)

setosa.io Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 9.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-05 Resurfaced 2022-10-29

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Stuff in Space

stuffin.space Tools, games & demos 16 submissions · 16 people · 6.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-04 Resurfaced 2018-04-05

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Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale

mkorostoff.github.io Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-10 Resurfaced 2023-10-20 archived copy

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World Airports Voronoi (2014)

www.jasondavies.com Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 10.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-01 Resurfaced 2018-06-18

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City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once

anvaka.github.io Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-12 Resurfaced 2024-12-21

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Shipmap.org

www.shipmap.org Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-07

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Animated Factorisation Diagrams

www.datapointed.net Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 12.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-05 Resurfaced 2025-05-21

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Below the Surface – Finds from an archaeological project in the River Amstel

belowthesurface.amsterdam Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 7.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-11

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Atlas of Surveillance

atlasofsurveillance.org Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-02 Resurfaced 2023-10-13

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Women's Pockets are Inferior

pudding.cool Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 4 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-10 Resurfaced 2023-10-24

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Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines

pinballmap.com Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 4 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-06 Resurfaced 2024-02-02

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Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up

river-runner-global.samlearner.com Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 4 people · 3.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-01 Resurfaced 2025-01-26

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North American Regional Dialects and Accents (2016)

aschmann.net Tools, games & demos 11 submissions · 11 people · 15.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-09 Resurfaced 2026-04-16

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Below the Surface – Finds from an archaeological project in the River Amstel

belowthesurface.amsterdam Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 7.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-11

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Open Infrastructure Map

openinframap.org Tools, games & demos 12 submissions · 12 people · 7.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-08

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Shipmap.org

www.shipmap.org Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 8.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2026-01 Resurfaced 2026-01-07

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Submarine Cable Map

www.submarinecablemap.com Tools, games & demos 30 submissions · 30 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-02 Resurfaced 2025-09-07

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Candidates

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Scale of the Universe

www.htwins.net Tools, games & demos 24 submissions · 23 people · 12.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-12-08

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? (2017)

pudding.cool Tools, games & demos 18 submissions · 17 people · 8.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-01-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Neural Network Zoo

www.asimovinstitute.org Tools, games & demos 10 submissions · 10 people · 9.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-12-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Interactive Periodic Table

ptable.com Tools, games & demos 12 submissions · 12 people · 13.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-06-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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What's Really Warming the World?

www.bloomberg.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 3.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-02-26

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone

wigle.net Tools, games & demos 11 submissions · 10 people · 10.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-10-07

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map

minitokyo3d.com Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-10-10

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The United States Redrawn as Fifty States with Equal Population

fakeisthenewreal.org Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 8.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-12-01

Needs:5 submissions

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What does one trillion dollars look like?

www.pagetutor.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 11.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2013-04-13

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Grade Inflation at American Colleges and Universities

www.gradeinflation.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 11.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-08-14

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips

toddwschneider.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 4 people · 2.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-03-14

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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A visualization of the prime factors of the first million integers

johnhw.github.io Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-11-13

Needs:5 submissions

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The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

www.atlasoftheuniverse.com Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 14.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-09-05

Needs:5 submissions

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The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy

pudding.cool Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-10-07

Needs:5 submissions

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An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system

mbtaviz.github.io Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 9.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-11-09

Needs:5 submissions

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Interactive Map of Linux Kernel

makelinux.github.io Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-13

Needs:5 submissions

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Most-favorited Hacker News posts

observablehq.com Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-12-29

Needs:5 submissions

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Space Elevator

neal.fun Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-10-20

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

911realtime.org Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 2 people · 3.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-09-11

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions3 submitters

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Prime number patterns

www.jasondavies.com Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-07-07

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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7 sets Venn Diagram: interactive 128 color combinations from mixing 7 colors

moebio.com Tools, games & demos 3 submissions · 3 people · 7.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-07-30

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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