So the analysis from the last image is not available - not even for money, right?
State of Show HN: 2025
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#12So the analysis from the last image is not available - not even for money, right?
We are going to publish that publicly next time we have a free day, though its publication will likely render the analysis redundant :)
Re: State of Show HN: 2025
#13So the analysis from the last image is not available - not even for money, right?
We are going to publish that publicly next time we have a free day, though its publication will likely render the analysis redundant :)
You already posted the answer. Just a bit of review of that picture and the answer is right there. ;)
Re: State of Show HN: 2025
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
We are going to publish that publicly next time we have a free day, though its publication will likely render the analysis redundant :)
You already posted the answer. Just a bit of review of that picture and the answer is right there. ;)
Haha that’s true, but the timezone is left as an exercise for the reader for now
Re: State of Show HN: 2025
#15Very nice analysis Do you have any insights into the Clawd spam ravaging /new and /show? I'm in there, being part of a (down) "voting ring" (not coordinated)
Thank you! I currently don’t have much insight to this current trend. At the time of this analysis I hadn’t even heard of Clawd but that would definitely be worth my revisiting. I was planning on doing this yearly but the Clawd excitement is definitely worth diving into.
It could be interesting to simply plot the /show frequence vs account age at the time. I suspect an change in patterns has occurred recently.
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#16My project[1] got some love on HN though never made it to frontage about a year ago. It also got unexpectedly popular on twitter. Its simple project and not particularly great ui either but somehow it clicked. My other projects which i thought were more useful never got any traction.
It seems novel idea was what caught people's attention.
one year later though it hardly gets any traffic. Also with improved LLM's it has become trivial to replicate them.
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#17Ive had 2 posts take off (>300 points) in the past 2 months. One was a project that garnered a bunch of points initially (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793693).
The other was more interesting. It was a "rise from the dead" post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466027), meaning I posted it on Jan 2 (Friday), and then on Jan 5 (Monday) I started to get emails from readers giving me feedback about the post. I had not expected that level of response...
From this experience, I learned nothing about how either the algorithm works or when the best time post is. IMO just being part of the community and showing your work frequently is the best strategy here.
Launch early, launch often - or something like that.
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#18Ive had 2 posts take off (>300 points) in the past 2 months. One was a project that garnered a bunch of points initially ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793693 ). The other was more interesting. It was a "rise from the dead" post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466027 ), meaning I posted it on Jan 2 (Friday), and then on Jan 5 (Monday) I started to get emails from readers giving me feedback about th…
It's hard to tell now, but most likely your second post got "second chanced". That's where they go through things that they think might be popular and put them back on the front page, usually a couple days after they were initially posted.
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#19The advent of coding agents killed Hacker News to some degree for me. Before I could always come here to get a pause from the hype, scandal and bait. Top comments were usually insightful; I really had this feeling to learn while browsing the feed. Today every brainfart about AI makes it to the frontpage. I know this sounds very dismissive, but most pieces really have no substance at all.
The good content is still there buts it drowns in noise and I'm not very good at filtering it out. I even suspect Hacker News is one of the prime advertisement targets of coding agent companies.
I would love to see if this is just my perception or if it can be found in the data.
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#20The advent of coding agents killed Hacker News to some degree for me. Before I could always come here to get a pause from the hype, scandal and bait. Top comments were usually insightful; I really had this feeling to learn while browsing the feed. Today every brainfart about AI makes it to the frontpage. I know this sounds very dismissive, but most pieces really have no substance at all. The good content is still the…
Personally I don't care about what news articles end up on the front page - it's AI now, but there have been other trends in the past that did the same.
The bigger problem is the effect that it's had on "Show HN" postings, which in the past were things you could depend on were built by the person submitting it. That's why those posts tended to be more strongly moderated, because they often were seen as attacks on the person's art. Now I feel like most of the credibility has left the room on those posts.
Don't get me wrong - I have no problem with "vibe coding". I do plenty of it myself these days, for commercial purposes. But I feel it cheapens and waters down someone presenting work as their own.