Hacker News Insights
Research library
Stable, source-linked views of Hacker News topics and years, generated from the same verified data as the Attention Lab.
Data through 2026-07-13
Topics
Annual title-share histories for durable technologies and community themes.
- AI agents1.296% of titles in 2025; peak 2026
- AI / LLM12.901% of titles in 2025; peak 2026
- Zig0.112% of titles in 2025; peak 2026
- DuckDB0.067% of titles in 2025; peak 2026
- SQLite0.112% of titles in 2025; peak 2024
- Postgres0.361% of titles in 2025; peak 2024
- Open source1.518% of titles in 2025; peak 2026
- Rust0.883% of titles in 2025; peak 2026
- HTMX0.027% of titles in 2025; peak 2024
- Redis0.048% of titles in 2025; peak 2011
- WebAssembly0.150% of titles in 2025; peak 2022
- Linux0.792% of titles in 2025; peak 2026
- TypeScript0.177% of titles in 2025; peak 2019
- Image gen0.110% of titles in 2025; peak 2022
- Security0.945% of titles in 2025; peak 2018
- Svelte0.025% of titles in 2025; peak 2023
- Kafka0.057% of titles in 2025; peak 2019
- Python0.681% of titles in 2025; peak 2020
- Terraform0.039% of titles in 2025; peak 2020
- Elixir0.063% of titles in 2025; peak 2017
- Privacy0.438% of titles in 2025; peak 2013
- Docker0.150% of titles in 2025; peak 2015
- Startups0.695% of titles in 2025; peak 2007
- MongoDB0.034% of titles in 2025; peak 2013
- React0.257% of titles in 2025; peak 2017
- JavaScript0.305% of titles in 2025; peak 2013
- Kubernetes0.146% of titles in 2025; peak 2019
- Bitcoin / crypto0.518% of titles in 2025; peak 2018
- Serverless0.060% of titles in 2025; peak 2018
- Remote work0.029% of titles in 2025; peak 2020
- Vue0.020% of titles in 2025; peak 2018
- jQuery0.005% of titles in 2025; peak 2009
Years
A year-by-year view of the strongest tracked title themes.
- 2007full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2008full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2009full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2010full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2011full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2012full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2013full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2014full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2015full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2016full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2017full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2018full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2019full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2020full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2021full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2022full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2023full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2024full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2025full calendar year; 32 tracked topics
- 2026partial live year; 32 tracked topics