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thehivemind.online

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Completely broken in FF46 (Win 10).

http://thehivemind.online/?poop for great laughs

Chrome has replaced IE on the web mono-culture :'(

Same for FF43 on Linux

And FF46 on Linux which makes me think they just haven't ever tried this with FF.

Same for IE11 on Windows

Same on safari on iOS

Same on Safari OSX. How hard is it to make a form without a ton of needless crap?

Have you built anything similar in under 24 hours? I would love to take a look. Thanks for the feedback regarding OSX.

Is there any requirement that you can work on a "show HN" project for less than 24 hours? Were you prohibited from touching it afterwards? I don't understand this argument.

If you create something that is only working on Chrome, at least put "Google Chrome only" in the title, otherwise this is a broken application that you've just posted for the world to see.

You failed to answer my question, but I will answer yours.

1) No, but it seems most of the world liked it enough to upvote it. 2) No, but it was a low priority for me. 3) I did not know it only worked on Chrome, due to the time constraint I was under.

Sorry I only had time to test it on Chrome, but thank you for the feedback, I will look at cross browser compliancy when I get some more free time.

Same for Edge

What fun! I like the suggestion here for 'kindness' as a good first search, but don't forget to try the inflammatory ones too! "liberals" and "gamergate" seem like fun places to start.

- Why the arbitrary 12-character limit? There are so many more controversial phrases yet to try.

- I seem to frequently get this error in Chrome when trying to submit: "hivemind.js:62 Uncaught TypeError: arr.map is not a function"

Hi ,yep there are lots of issues, I only started developing this yesterday- I should be able fix it now, basically that occurs if no results are returned, maybe due to censorship (if it is a harsh term).

[EDIT] The arr.map issue should be fixed now - thanks for the heads up [EDIT] Also fixed text overflows in bubbles

Awww, mean old Google API. Why have something like this at all if you can't look up flamebait?

I wonder if you could build the same thing with the Twitter API and a quick clustering algorithm. That might even fit the spirit of the application better: Google definitely curates its search suggestions, whereas Twitter posts really are "the hivemind".

Still, this is cool. Thanks for sharing!

Ah thanks, that is a good idea, I am unaware of any suggestion API in twitter but I will look into it. I am unsure how I would approach parsing such a volume of tweets. Fun fact, did you know that as you type characters into twitter, your tweet gets saved to the DB and is accessible via the API BEFORE you press the submit button? ^_^ , seems a bit OTT regarding bandwidth use.

My code is now open source and the repo for this is at: https://github.com/craftfortress/thehivemind.online

I am just refactoring some of the files but it should be up soon.

I typed in Ada as in Ada programming language. That one will get obscure or interesting results. Results: "is short for (Ada Lovelace?); is enforced by (semi-accurate if DOD); is bullshit (popular opinion); is invisible fallout 4 (used there?); is op (huh?); is missing fallout 4 (meant to be used for gaming?). So, three answers are a definite hit, one way off, and two might reveal a secret deployment that's a sign of things to come in gaming. Same kind of results you get using the Ada compiler to assess program correctness. Interesting...

Ada is the name of a character in Fallout 4: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Ada

'op' = over powered, in gamer speak. So, is the character Ada over powered in the game Fallout 4? is the question people are searching.

BOOM! It all makes sense. The Internet crowds apparently converged on a game. Now, I have to wonder if she enforces anything in the game or it "enforces" a player decision they don't like. Also, there might be a scenario involving her that people think is "bullshit."

Considering 12 million copies of Fallout 4 sold in the first 24 hours of launch, it's quite possible (if sad) that there's users of Google that know of the game than know of Ada Lovelace (beyond having just heard the name once) or the Ada language.

Thats... (weeps)... probably true. It might also be true once 99% forget Fallout 4 exists.

Keep in mind what data this is drawing from - it's not what people know about, it's what they google.

As such it's probably better considered as a measure of how often people aren't familiar with something, but suddenly find themselves wanting to more about it. It's not too surprising that that happens more for a popular video game or a regulatory law than for a historical figure or a programming language.

Searching lovelace will make you weep too.

What the hell... Must be the 2013 movie. Everything on this search is shallower than Shallow Hal.

I'm guessing the "enforced by" one is about the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Most pronounceable 3 letter combinations are pretty overloaded.

BOOMx2! Good guess. That makes a lot of sense.

I am just updating the page so when you click on the speech bubble it actually takes you to the google results, give me 10 mins.

[EDIT] The bubbles now take you through to the offending results.

[EDIT] Just some further information. I started building this yesterday and I am now happy with the result. It works by sending CORS requests via a yahoo to the google suggestions algorithm . I have now completed the project and am happy with it, so any feedback or suggestions is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

PS I posted this 6 hours ago, but it crashed, it should now be ok for a while.

> Bitcoin

[is dead, is bullshit, is dying, is bad, is not anonymous, is the future]

seems pretty accurate :)

Ah great stuff, they are curious arent they!

Here is another couple I just found:

http://i.imgur.com/q4F7odF.png

http://i.imgur.com/6lJEyeJ.png

It is is also useful for superficially judging game popularity - eg: http://thehivemind.online/?eveonline http://thehivemind.online/?WOW

and companies: http://thehivemind.online/?nintendo

The microsoft and google queries are ... different

It was damn-near a super-intelligence on that one!

Try "Clinton", "Trump", and "Sanders" and be horrified/confused

Trump gives: is a Democrat; is love trump is life; is awesome; is right; is good; is Mussolini. Based on three of those, I conclude the algorithm is a fascist and correctly identifying with one of its own. This alliance with a secret, state apparatus explains aspects of my Ada answer in another comment where it was concerned with enforcement and had Fallout 4's trade secrets.

Mindless fun:

Agile: "is bad, is dead, is not a methodology"

God: "is dead, is not dead"

Cena : "is dead"

Capitalism: "is good, is bad"

Google: "is Skynet"

Apple: "is better than Samsung, is better than Android, is a fruit"

42 : "is the answer"

Facebook "is dead"

Twittter "is dying"

Quora "is dead"

Foursquare "is dead"