You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News
Published on: 2025-08-02 20:26:31
TLDR: I Did Download It
And now I can analyze it with DuckDB. Behold the fraction of total comments and stories referencing key topics over time!
0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 5/14/2007 5/14/2008 5/14/2009 5/14/2010 5/14/2011 5/14/2012 5/14/2013 5/14/2014 5/14/2015 5/14/2016 5/14/2017 5/14/2018 5/14/2019 5/14/2020 5/14/2021 5/14/2022 5/14/2023 5/14/2024 The Rise Of Rust avg_python_12w avg_javascript_12w avg_java_12w avg_ruby_12w avg_rust_12w
0 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.004 0.005 0.006 0.007 0.008 0.009 0.01 5/14/2007 5/14/2008 5/14/2009 5/14/2010 5/14/2011 5/14/2012 5/14/2013 5/14/2014 5/14/2015 5/14/2016 5/14/2017 5/14/2018 5/14/2019 5/14/2020 5/14/2021 5/14/2022 5/14/2023 5/14/2024 The Progression of Postgres avg_mysql_12w avg_postgres_12w avg_mongo_12w avg_redis_12w avg_sqlite_12w
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