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Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

Visualizes employee counts within market-cap bubbles, helping founders compare staffing to peers.

Steady
Signal score
17
Trajectory
→ Steady
7-day est. ~14

Why this scored 17

every term, weighted
Velocity+0.0 / 40

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+10.9 / 25

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+0.0 / 25

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+8.5 / 10

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty−2.1 / 30

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite17.2

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

Outlook

low confidence · estimate, not a guarantee

7-day

~14

range 0–26

14-day

~11

range 0–25

30-day

~4

range 0–23

Signal history

7-day window (free)
1246

projected trajectory (estimate, not a guarantee)

Entities

s&p 500
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