Hacker News Trends
Data
search trends analytics
SHOW HN2026
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Hacker News Trends
Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
hackernewstrends.comHow HN took it
28 positive, 32 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 25 critical, out of 87 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 11 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 12 againstPerformance: 0 for, 7 againstDesign: 3 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun, well-designed and useful for exploring trends
From 4 comments
The example comparisons made me smile. Well done!
flakiness on HNReally beautiful, informative, and functional layout. Great work!
joelres on HNThis is quite useful at-a-glance
k33n on HNooh this is sick! really nice ui too!
clacker-o-matic on HN
Good for finding buried interesting articles
From 1 comment
Despite being for trends this is actually a good tool to find articles that are interesting but sometimes buried.
arikrahman on HN
Objections
Counts are absolute, not normalized by total HN activity
From 3 comments
One useful feature would be to normalize by total so that I can see changes in something as opposed to just total site growth. Right now I have to chart a single generic…
arjie on HNGreat project.The popular comparisons are probably the most useful part because they show the relay race between tools pretty clearly. One thing I’d like to see is normalization…
aberrahmane_b on HNFun project and well executed. It would be cool if it had the option to adjust for relative volume. For example, a search for “iPhone” dips around 2025, but did interest in it…
joshmaker on HN
Frequent rate limiting and timeouts under load
From 3 comments
Hug of death ` /api/hn -> 504 An error occurred with your deployment FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT cle1::c8vgv-1782399959042-aeba3cae05ff `
simonpure on HN/api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Your database has been temporarily rate-limited, please contact support@upstash.com for further details."}
superxpro12 on HNHello, /api/hn -> 502 {"error":"Your database has been temporarily rate-limited, please contact support@upstash.com for further details."}
kaelyx on HN
Title suggests search trends but data is published text
From 2 comments
Google Trends is about searches This is about published text. More like if Google Trends counted word occurrences on webpages. Or if Google Ngrams counted webpages instead of…
Aachen on HNSomeone asked an imo good question (that I was going to vouch for, idk why it was dead), but deleted it. Not sure why, but so I'll not credit the username in case they don't want…
Aachen on HN
Requests
Normalize results by total comment volume
From 3 comments
One useful feature would be to normalize by total so that I can see changes in something as opposed to just total site growth. Right now I have to chart a single generic…
arjie on HNVery cool! I'd love to have some sort of normalization option to separate more subtle positive trends from the general increase in number of posts.
scarecrw on HNGreat project.The popular comparisons are probably the most useful part because they show the relay race between tools pretty clearly. One thing I’d like to see is normalization…
aberrahmane_b on HN
Add Show HN scoped search
From 1 comment
This is great, I was just hoping to find a tool like this and specifically scoped to "Show HN" posts? Is there a way to do that?
cloudkj on HN
Better handling of synonyms and term disambiguation
From 2 comments
IMO, using AI to assign keywords to a broader group of strict synonymous keywords would make the comparison much more helpful. Because in general we want to know the trend of…
sinuhe69 on HNgreat idea! Now, you are running into the same issue Google Trends had to solve: term disambiguation. For instance, "atom" is ambiguous in a comparison of editors like this:…
chfritz on HN
Questions
Where does the data come from and is it scraped or open
From 1 comment
Really cool! Where would you get the data for something like this? Is it open, or its scraped?
jahala on HN
Alternatives named
Google Ngram Viewer
From 2 comments
I'd be interested in "google ngram for hacker news" instead
NooneAtAll3 on HNmaybe more like google ngram viewer? https://books.google.com/ngrams/about
swasheck on HN
Algolia HN search
From 1 comment
Now if Algolia had a dataset of what people are searching for on HN that'd be it
morkalork on HN