Hacker News Insights research
Hacker News in 2024
The strongest tracked Hacker News title themes in 2024, with annual shares and historical context.
Data through 2026-07-13
This page ranks the tracked topics by their share of retained Hacker News story titles in 2024. It is a full calendar year; topic patterns can overlap and the list is not a taxonomy of every story.
| Rank | Topic | Category | Title share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI / LLM | AI | 9.022% |
| 2 | Open source | Meta | 1.534% |
| 3 | Security | Crypto & privacy | 0.876% |
| 4 | Linux | Infra | 0.802% |
| 5 | Startups | Meta | 0.786% |
| 6 | Rust | Languages | 0.767% |
| 7 | Python | Languages | 0.725% |
| 8 | Bitcoin / crypto | Crypto & privacy | 0.567% |
| 9 | Postgres | Data | 0.496% |
| 10 | JavaScript | Languages | 0.409% |
| 11 | Privacy | Crypto & privacy | 0.384% |
| 12 | React | Web | 0.289% |
Context markers
- 2024-02 — Sora / video generation: OpenAI previews Sora 2024-02 — text-to-video.
- 2024-05 — GPT-4o + assistants: Multimodal real-time assistants 2024-05.
Method
Every percentage uses that year's retained story-title count as its denominator. Visit the Attention Lab for 2024 or read the methodology.