I made a Greasemonkey script which scrapes Hacker News polls and creates embedded histograms (using Google Charts API):
http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/hnpollhist.user.js
Note: This is a variation on my previous GM script which did pie charts (pie chart and histogram can coexist if you install both scripts).
http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/hnpollhist.user.js
And this is how it's supposed to look like:
http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/hnhist.png
Here is a previous pie chart version:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=528172
Some polls to see it in action:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=553794 How much do you bill per hour?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493152 How many hours do you really work each day?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517039 How old are you?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527681 Where are you from?