Hacker News Trends

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.

Open source: the code is at github.com/upstash/hacker-trends.

First shown on Hacker News on 25 June 2026 as “I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments”, where it reached 822 points and 156 comments. Read the discussion.