AI / LLM on Hacker News
How AI / LLM changed in Hacker News story titles from 2007 through 2026, with annual title share, peak year, sources, and coverage limits.
Data through 2026-07-13
In 2025, AI / LLM appeared in 12.901% of Hacker News story titles. Its share rose by 3.879 percentage points from 2024. The series peaks in 2026 at 16.598%.
Annual title share
Each value is the share of all retained Hacker News story titles in that calendar year matching this topic's bounded title pattern. Different topics can overlap.
| Year | Share of story titles | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 0.134% | Full year |
| 2008 | 0.127% | Full year |
| 2009 | 0.136% | Full year |
| 2010 | 0.098% | Full year |
| 2011 | 0.102% | Full year |
| 2012 | 0.076% | Full year |
| 2013 | 0.111% | Full year |
| 2014 | 0.189% | Full year |
| 2015 | 0.474% | Full year |
| 2016 | 1.088% | Full year |
| 2017 | 1.764% | Full year |
| 2018 | 2.037% | Full year |
| 2019 | 1.979% | Full year |
| 2020 | 1.667% | Full year |
| 2021 | 1.517% | Full year |
| 2022 | 2.290% | Full year |
| 2023 | 9.308% | Full year |
| 2024 | 9.022% | Full year |
| 2025 | 12.901% | Full year |
| 2026 | 16.598% | Partial live year |
Explore and verify
Open AI / LLM in the Attention Lab. Read the methodology and verification ledger. Source records come from the official Hacker News API ↗.
Annual values are each topic's share of that year's HN story titles. The live year is partial; any sampled years are labeled and remain share-normalized.