https://app.hex.tech/%22https://app.hex.tech/virtual-hackathon/app/Hacker-News-Demystified-032DXkOndTJkiwAAO1fyX5%22

I built this for a hackathon after analyzing Hacker News data from 2020–2025, and some of the patterns around front-page posts were more interesting than I expected, so I’m sharing it here.

A couple of notable data points: the highest-upvoted post in this period was about Sam Altman being fired from OpenAI (5,000+ upvotes), and weekends turned out to be a surprisingly good time to post!

Following my own advice for this post. let’s see how it goes xD