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Life & fun · May 15, 2019

Hacker News Front Page Trends

Explore what’s been popular on the Hacker News front page since 2007

Hacker News Front Page Trends launched on May 15, 2019 with 84 votes, #428 of 3,072 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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Hacker News Front Page Trends allows users to search what has been popular on Hacker News since 2007. The searchable database covers words, phrases, domains, and usernames, updating nightly with the latest front page items. The tool is designed for anyone interested in exploring historical trends and popular topics on Hacker News, with precise data available from November 2014 onward and estimates for earlier periods based on score rankings.

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Search what’s been popular on the HN front page since 2007. Supports words, phrases, domains, and usernames. See below for more info. Searches are performed against a database of Hacker News items dating back to October 2006. The dataset updates nightly with the latest front page items. The intent is to search only items that appeared on the front page of HN, with the important caveat that HN only provides the exact list of front page items for dates since November 11, 2014, so anything before then is an estimate. For earlier dates, I used a heuristic of sorting by score and taking the top 115 items on weekdays, 80 on weekends, subject to a minimum of 3 points. This definitely isn’t…from toddwschneider.com

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