Startups on Hacker News
How Startups 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, Startups appeared in 0.695% of Hacker News story titles. Its share fell by 0.091 percentage points from 2024. The series peaks in 2007 at 7.155%.
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 | 7.155% | Full year |
| 2008 | 3.277% | Full year |
| 2009 | 2.585% | Full year |
| 2010 | 3.133% | Full year |
| 2011 | 3.398% | Full year |
| 2012 | 3.013% | Full year |
| 2013 | 2.620% | Full year |
| 2014 | 2.483% | Full year |
| 2015 | 2.347% | Full year |
| 2016 | 1.839% | Full year |
| 2017 | 1.598% | Full year |
| 2018 | 1.280% | Full year |
| 2019 | 1.139% | Full year |
| 2020 | 1.024% | Full year |
| 2021 | 0.808% | Full year |
| 2022 | 0.828% | Full year |
| 2023 | 0.829% | Full year |
| 2024 | 0.786% | Full year |
| 2025 | 0.695% | Full year |
| 2026 | 0.507% | Partial live year |
Explore and verify
Open Startups 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.