This is a little something I did for fun. The trending hash tags on twitter are an interesting metric for what people are talking about, so I thought it would be cool to make something like that for Hacker News. But we don't have hash tags, so the app just uses words.
Note that you can click on a word to get some of the posts it's mentioned in.
Edit: Also, a heads up -- it's running on a Heroku free dyno, and it's already feeling a little slow.