[HN Gopher] One million (small web) screenshots
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One million (small web) screenshots
Author : squidhunter
Score : 139 points
Date : 2025-12-22 14:44 UTC (5 days ago)
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| yoyo250 wrote:
| Maybe can add a timeline and clock
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| Timeline: view older versions
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| Clock: view light/dark mode theme according to user time zone (or
| enable dark/light mode manually)
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| I'm also a bit curious, since most web pages are predominantly
| white, how many of them are adapted to dark mode?
| cosmicgadget wrote:
| That's a lot of fun to explore. I'm not entirely convinced by the
| "you can judge a book by its cover" thing, there are so many "Hi,
| I'm _____" pages that might have content or might just be
| portfolio stubs.
| chrismorgan wrote:
| There are many patches of almost-identical sites.
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| Some of them are due to many people using the same theme.
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| Some of them are expired or parked domains, which I reckon should
| be detected and excluded.
| stackghost wrote:
| >Some of them are due to many people using the same theme.
|
| Teeming masses of sites using what probably seems to the
| authors as a fresh, unconventional look but ends up being Yet
| Another.
| arjie wrote:
| I doubt anyone selecting a popular theme is confused by the
| fact that it's popular. I use the default Mediawiki theme for
| mine, for instance.
| coldpie wrote:
| Yeah those clusters are interesting. They stand out, so they
| are the first thing I zoomed in on, then I realized they're all
| just stock resume sites. Quickly realize the clusters are
| something to avoid. Turns out to be an effective visualization
| method.
| chrismorgan wrote:
| The thing I find interesting is where the grouping is robust
| to colour variations: one of the bigger groups is around 25%
| from left, 20% from bottom, all one theme but in a wide
| variety of colours.
| foxfired wrote:
| I found my own blog [0]. But interestingly, it is missing the
| letter I in screenshot starting from July 2025.
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| [0]: https://onemillionscreenshots.com/idiallo.com/screenshot
| jot wrote:
| So good to see this different approach! The clustering looks
| really cool and love that the focus is not on the most popular
| websites.
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| Here's another Christmassy alternative:
| https://display.archive.org/xmas
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| I'm one of the makers of OneMillionScreenshots.com and I'm
| currently working on an update to it.
| nathaah3 wrote:
| i didn't know about onemillioscreenshots before but..
|
| this is one of the coolest blogs i have ever read!
| ErroneousBosh wrote:
| Shit, my blog is on there. I should post on it more frequently
| than once every two years.
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| My forum isn't, though. With a post every day or so and nearly 50
| active users, it's probably not "small web" any more :-D
| AndrewStephens wrote:
| I started by finding my own blog and scrolling north, south,
| east, and west to see my neighbours. I've already found several
| interesting sites and a new person to follow on mastodon.
|
| It's a shame there doesn't seem to be any way to link to a
| particular position on the map but great stuff nevertheless.
| vintagedave wrote:
| I'm curious how the choice of which blog is located next to which
| was made. The writeup mentions "dimensionality". I found my blog,
| and the eight surrounding it are interesting people, but every
| one of them is an AI researcher with degrees from Berkeley or
| similar, and the sites are predominantly CVs.
|
| Luminous company but not my level, nor is my blog about AI, nor
| is it a CV. I can't see any reason for the location.
| coldpie wrote:
| I think it is literally by the colors of the screenshots.
| Nothing to do with the contents.
|
| > I just want to encode the high level aesthetic details of
| webpage screenshots. Because of this, I fell back on an old
| friend: the triplet loss on top of a small encoder. The
| resulting output dimension of 64 afforded ample room for
| describing the visual range while maintaining a considerably
| smaller footprint.
| ctxc wrote:
| Very surprised to see my website on there. But I'm assuming it's
| >6 months old because I went batshit crazy on the UI recently.
| elaus wrote:
| Fyi the link in your HN profile 404s (but the website looks
| nice, good work!)
| frankcaron wrote:
| I found my own site, as well, and I found that particularly
| charming.
|
| Recently went back [0] to the open web and feel like this
| inclusion alone justified that move.
|
| Thanks for sharing. Humble and heart-warming way to end 2025 for
| an old Internet man.
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| [0]: https://frankycaron.medium.com/of-an-open-web-rebirth-and-
| bi...
| troupo wrote:
| Long tail on the internet is truly long.
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| My website [1] gets perhaps as many as 200 visitors a week
| according to Cloudflare. And it's still there at number 399322 (
| _first half_ of the pack).
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| [1] https://onemillionscreenshots.com/dmitriid.com
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