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Hacker News in 2026: the front page in charts
Every story that reached the Hacker News front page since January 1, 2026: which sites and posters got there most, the most upvoted and most discussed stories, when the best-scoring ones were posted, and which topics rose. Every story links to the article and to its discussion.
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Front-page stories
1,419
Days
8
Sites
932
Data through
Which sites reach the Hacker News front page most often?
theguardian.com had the most front-page stories in 2026: 33, 2.4% of the 1,373 stories that linked to a site. Next came youtube.com, with 33.
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Source: Hacker News front page history and the official Hacker News API · Data as of · The data is in the table below
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Which Hacker News stories got the most upvotes in 2026?
“Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers” got the most: 2,532 points. Every story in this top 15 passed 879 points.
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Source: Hacker News front page history and the official Hacker News API · Data as of · The data is in the table below
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Which Hacker News stories drew the most comments in 2026?
“Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes” drew the most discussion: 4,689 comments. Every story in this top 15 passed 656 comments.
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Source: Hacker News front page history and the official Hacker News API · Data as of · The data is in the table below
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Do more upvoted Hacker News stories get more comments?
Yes, as a rule: the typical (median) story with 1,000+ points had 896 comments, against 2 for stories with 0–49 points. Some stories buck it, drawing far more comments than points.
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Source: Hacker News front page history and the official Hacker News API · Data as of · The data is in the table below
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| Points | Stories | Median comments | Its most discussed story | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–49 | 907 | 2 | Why do Americans hate A.I.? (discussion) | 118 |
| 50–99 | 203 | 31 | The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice (discussion) | 209 |
| 100–249 | 173 | 67 | Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) | 404 |
| 250–499 | 85 | 186 | AI coding assistants are getting worse? (discussion) | 738 |
| 500–999 | 39 | 310 | Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far (discussion) | 1,353 |
| 1,000+ | 12 | 896 | Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes (discussion) | 4,689 |
What time of day were the best-scoring Hacker News stories posted?
Front-page stories posted at 16:00 UTC did best, with a median of 53 points, against 11 for those posted at 07:00 UTC. The most were posted at 21:00 UTC: 103 stories.
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The value axis starts at zero. Hover, tap or use the arrow keys to read exact values. This counts only stories that reached the front page; Hacker News doesn't publish the ones that didn't, so it shows when front-page stories did best, not the odds of reaching it. Times are UTC, the clock Hacker News's front-page days run on (New York is 4 or 5 hours behind).
Source: Hacker News front page history and the official Hacker News API · Data as of · The data is in the table below
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Which day of the week were the best-scoring Hacker News stories posted?
Front-page stories posted on Sundays did best, with a median of 30 points, against 20 for those posted on Mondays. The most were posted on Thursdays: 287 stories.
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Source: Hacker News front page history and the official Hacker News API · Data as of · The data is in the table below
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| Day | Stories | Median points | Its most upvoted story | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 208 | 20 | It's hard to justify Tahoe icons (discussion) | 2,487 |
| Tuesday | 188 | 26 | Vietnam bans unskippable ads (discussion) | 1,580 |
| Wednesday | 199 | 20 | Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team (discussion) | 1,457 |
| Thursday | 287 | 27 | Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers (discussion) | 2,532 |
| Friday | 181 | 28 | Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere (discussion) | 1,078 |
| Saturday | 172 | 24 | Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes (discussion) | 1,771 |
| Sunday | 184 | 30 | Lessons from 14 years at Google (discussion) | 1,678 |
Who posted the most Hacker News front-page stories in 2026?
PaulHoule did, with 20 front-page stories. These 20 posters shared 15.4% of all 1,419 front-page stories between them.
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Which stories were on the front page each day, and their ranks, come from Hacker News's own front page history (news.ycombinator.com/front, one page per UTC day). Points, comments, posters and post times come from the official Hacker News API, as they stood when each day was collected. A new day is added every day.
Chartly keeps only titles, links and counts, never the articles themselves; titles belong to their posters, and every story links to its article and its Hacker News discussion. Data as of .
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