We are not particularly pleased with the state of our visualizations, so I totally agree. If you have any examples of how you'd like to see the visualizations, please share them!
I think visualizations can be inspirational but often need to be personalized. Whether it’s audience, content, or presentation style the more I watched the HN feed, the more I wanted to be able to adjust and tweak certain things.
It was less about video at one point I could even drive and listen as an a podcast.