Activity
Stories and comments
Pulse
Signals from the current range
Top stories
Highest scoring in range
Top domains
Most submitted in range
Top stories
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Posting-time patterns
Selected range · average score by weekday and hour (UTC)
Score distribution
Visible stories · selected range · logarithmic scale
Post formats
Selected range · engagement by submission type
Topic momentum
Monthly story titles matching keywords
Highest-rated domains
Selected range · top by average score
All-time records
Most upvoted and most discussed
Leaderboard
All time
Domain rankings
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Rising domains
Last 30d vs prior 30d
Lowest signal
1,000+ stories · lowest average score
Volume by year
Stories and comments since 2006
Volume by month
All time
Items by hour
UTC · selected window
Items by weekday
Monday through Sunday
Posting heatmap
Hour × weekday visible story count
Search results
Enter a query to search titles, comments, and URLs.
Item & thread viewer
Inspect any Hacker News item by ID
Compare story cohorts
Visible submissions · topic matches are literal title substrings · cohorts can overlap · dates use UTC
Observed archive scores at query time. Different story ages and coverage can affect comparisons.
Fast-rising stories
Points per hour between first and latest observations in the past 24 hours · minimum 5 minute observation span
Collected from the HN API going forward. Coverage includes the top 100 and newest 100 stories and follows them for 48 hours. Gaps and sampling affect rankings; these are not a complete historical series.
SQL Lab
Read-only queries against hackernews_history · LIMIT capped at 1,000
Schema & guardrails
update_time id deleted type (story, comment, poll, pollopt, job) by time text dead parent poll kids url score title parts descendantshackernews_history, and row-returning queries are capped at 1,000 rows.