Linux on Hacker News
How Linux 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, Linux appeared in 0.792% of Hacker News story titles. Its share fell by 0.010 percentage points from 2024. The series peaks in 2026 at 0.840%.
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 | 0.545% | Full year |
| 2008 | 0.712% | Full year |
| 2009 | 0.716% | Full year |
| 2010 | 0.577% | Full year |
| 2011 | 0.597% | Full year |
| 2012 | 0.657% | Full year |
| 2013 | 0.641% | Full year |
| 2014 | 0.573% | Full year |
| 2015 | 0.577% | Full year |
| 2016 | 0.743% | Full year |
| 2017 | 0.679% | Full year |
| 2018 | 0.718% | Full year |
| 2019 | 0.703% | Full year |
| 2020 | 0.788% | Full year |
| 2021 | 0.825% | Full year |
| 2022 | 0.806% | Full year |
| 2023 | 0.770% | Full year |
| 2024 | 0.802% | Full year |
| 2025 | 0.792% | Full year |
| 2026 | 0.840% | Partial live year |
Explore and verify
Open Linux 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.