I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.
I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments launched on June 25, 2026 with 822 votes, #6 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
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This tool indexes 18 years of Hacker News comments to reveal trending topics and discussions over time, functioning as a Google Trends equivalent for the Hacker News community. It is designed for users interested in historical patterns of what technologists and developers have been discussing. The tool allows people to search through nearly two decades of conversation data to see how interest in specific subjects has evolved within this particular online community.
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Charts how often any topic, tool, or person has come up on Hacker News. Overlay a few terms to watch their traction rise and fall. Each line is a live date-histogram over 45M posts and comments, built on Upstash Redis Search . Below the chart sit the actual stories and comments behind the lines, filterable by term. How Hacker Trends works The deploy-platform rivalry: Cloudflare carries the CDN/edge conversation for years, then Vercel surges on the Next.js wave and the two trade blows as both push into edge functions and full-stack hosting. David vs Goliath of the lab era: OpenAI's repeated towers lead from 2023, until a sudden 2026 Anthropic surge pulls level and the lead changes hands. The…from hackernewstrends.com
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