Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
Oh, please, please someone toss in some animation (and also expand the sample set to a much longer time frame).By animation I mean that the transition between two "frames" should be titles moving smoothly between positions.  It would need some clever use of color and exact path to make it legible.The user-facing purpose of such animation is to make it easier for people to perceive (viscerally) the bouncy dynamics of the ranking system.(It's a neat hack as is, too, of course.)