Hacker News Trends — Topic, Engagement & Viral-Story Analytics

Analyze Hacker News and surface what's trending. Clean JSON analytics — story counts, average and top scores, topic and domain breakdowns, engagement tiers, top authors, and current viral stories with plain-English insights. No API key. Pay per record.

Publisher description, verbatim

Last 7 dayson this actor

11new rivals on Hacker News

Each one reaches followers by email the morning after.Follow this actor

Key figures30 readings

Price / 1k$50.00per 1,000 results

Users / 30d2↓ 2 over 30 readings

Users, all time50↑ 4 over 30 readings

Runs / 30d59↑ 26 over 30 readings

Runs / user / mo29.5runs per monthly user

Users / 30d30 readings

Standing

#21of 240

on Hacker News, by users in the last 30 days among actors classified to this platform.

Store search presence

3top-10 keywords

best #8 for “viral”

viral#8
hacker#9
hacker news#9

re-crawled daily

Recorded changes

showing 3 of 7 in the last 30 days · followers get all 7 by email

2026-08-22searchKeyword rank moveleft top-10 for “topics” (#10 → #12)—on record
2026-08-18platformPlatform standing moveleft top-10 on news.ycombinator.com (#8 → #175 of 184)—on record
2026-08-11searchKeyword rank moveentered top-10 for “topics” (#11 → #10)—on record

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