Hacker News data and analytics
Score, rank, and comment history for every story. Dashboards, reports, and direct database access.
Features
Score & rank history
Snapshots of score, rank, and comment count captured every few minutes.
FreeDashboards
Interactive charts for front page trends, score trajectories, and posting patterns.
FreeUser profiles & activity
Submission history, karma trends, and activity patterns for any HN user.
ProDirect DB access
SQL access to the full dataset. Run your own queries.
Topic detection
Surface emerging topics and shifts in what HN is discussing.
ComingSentiment analysis
Track how discussion tone changes over the life of a story.
ComingAlerts & digests
Weekly email digests and alerts for keywords, users, or score thresholds.
ComingFull-text search
Search stories and comments with typo tolerance and filters.
ComingDashboards
Research reports
Browser extension
Score, rank, and comment charts injected into Hacker News story pages.
Sponsors & community
Retool
We also built a set of dashboards with Retool.
@TrackHN on X
Trending stories, score milestones, front page alerts, and weekly recaps.
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