Activity
Stories and comments
StoriesComments
Pulse
Signals from the current range
Top stories
Highest scoring in range
Top domains
Most submitted in range
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Posting-time patterns
Selected range · average score by weekday and hour (UTC)
LowHighDimmed cells have <30 stories
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
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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
Items by hour
UTC · selected window
Items by weekday
Monday through Sunday
Posting heatmap
Hour × weekday visible story count
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Item & thread viewer
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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
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Schema & guardrails
update_time id deleted type (story, comment, poll, pollopt, job) by time text dead parent poll kids url score title parts descendants
Only SELECT, WITH, SHOW, DESCRIBE and EXPLAIN are accepted. Write/DDL statements are blocked, queries must touch hackernews_history, and row-returning queries are capped at 1,000 rows.