Show HN posts p/month more than doubled in the last year

Summary

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% │ └───────────────────────────────┴──────────┴────────────────────┴────────┘ Folk seem to be building things and showing them off at a crazy rate, and I’m here for it.