Show HN posts per month more than doubled in the last year

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✅ **What You’ll Learn**:

After building some things recently using LLMs and agent workflows, I was noticing more ‘Show HN’ posts. Assuming there had been a rise in folks building things, but wanting to rule out confirmation bias, I looked at the numbers.

Looking at https://hn.algolia.com/api, we can see that for Jan (yet to complete), we’re already +125% more Show HN posts compared to Jan 2025. Show HN posts have gone from 3.5% → 15% of total submissions.

  ┌───────────────────────────────┬──────────┬────────────────────┬────────┐
  │                               │ Jan 2025 │ Jan 2026 (26 days) │ Change │
  ├───────────────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────┼────────┤
  │ Show HN posts                 │ 1,727    │ 3,886              │ +125%  │
  ├───────────────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────────────┼────────┤
  │ Show HN % of total stories    │ 6.93%    │ 15.31%             │ +121%  │
  └───────────────────────────────┴──────────┴────────────────────┴────────┘

Show HN submissions per month