JavaScript on Hacker News
How JavaScript 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, JavaScript appeared in 0.305% of Hacker News story titles. Its share fell by 0.104 percentage points from 2024. The series peaks in 2013 at 0.991%.
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 | 0.609% | Full year |
| 2008 | 0.817% | Full year |
| 2009 | 0.688% | Full year |
| 2010 | 0.737% | Full year |
| 2011 | 0.889% | Full year |
| 2012 | 0.977% | Full year |
| 2013 | 0.991% | Full year |
| 2014 | 0.925% | Full year |
| 2015 | 0.972% | Full year |
| 2016 | 0.938% | Full year |
| 2017 | 0.972% | Full year |
| 2018 | 0.847% | Full year |
| 2019 | 0.764% | Full year |
| 2020 | 0.655% | Full year |
| 2021 | 0.514% | Full year |
| 2022 | 0.448% | Full year |
| 2023 | 0.389% | Full year |
| 2024 | 0.409% | Full year |
| 2025 | 0.305% | Full year |
| 2026 | 0.235% | Partial live year |
Explore and verify
Open JavaScript 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.