Show HN Posts Per Month More Than Doubled in the Last Year
Hacker News
Analysis of Hacker News data reveals a significant increase in 'Show HN' posts over the past year, with monthly submissions more than doubling and their proportion of total submissions rising from 3.5% to 15%.
Show HN posts per month more than doubled in the last year | Pete Goldsmith
After building some things recently using LLMs and agent workflows, I was noticing more ‘Show HN’ posts. Assuming there had been a rise in folks building things, but wanting to rule out confirmation bias, I looked at the numbers.
Looking at https://hn.algolia.com/api, we can see that for Jan (yet to complete), we’re already +125% more Show HN posts compared to Jan 2025. Show HN posts have gone from 3.5% → 15% of total submissions.
Folk seem to be building things and showing them off at a crazy rate, and I’m here for it.