I'm glad to see Show HNs ticking up a bit. We've been putting more effort into finding good ones that fall through the cracks. Anyone who wants to help with that should browse <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew</a>.<p>If you see a Show HN (or any submission!) that's particularly good and isn't getting attention, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. We'll take a look and maybe put it in the second-chance pool (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380</a>), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.<p>The best such suggestions come from people who aren't personally connected to the article or project, but just ran across it.
I wish there were some more analysis of the trends but lots of interesting analysis would be hard to do. I had a quick search and found some trends. eg, lisp decreased in popularity, overtaken by clojure then Haskell, then peak JS, but my memory of HN was that lisp articles were reasonably common until 2015 at least, Haskell had a peak around 2012-2016 and in the early 2010s there were loads of articles about all the different web frameworks. I see a lot less of all of those things today. Probably the biggest increase has been in current affairs. There was also a period around 2016 when articles from literary magazines (<city> review [of books]) were popular, typically articles about politics more than books. I don’t see them so much either, I barely even see articles from the new Yorker anymore.<p>The problem with using this site to look for some of those things is that those things were usually not mentioned in the title. I’m glad that HN still has a lot of “mystery” titles where you don’t know what you’re going to get when you click a link.
Looks similar to something I built: <a href="https://hnprofile.com/compare?search=ruby,python" rel="nofollow">https://hnprofile.com/compare?search=ruby,python</a><p>Note the rules for "Show HN" state:<p>> Show HN is a way to share something that you've made on Hacker News.<p>and/or<p>> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html</a><p>The person who submitted does not appear to be the original author (who is Todd W. Schneider). Interesting content though.
The recent uptick in Show HN posts since the coronavirus pandemic started is interesting. I have some guesses why this is occurring (WFH, layoffs, new problems to solve) but it would be interesting to know exactly what's driving it.
> Show HN: This up votes itself<p>Ironic that that is still number one. A shady way to submit a bug, but props to HN for not burying it or punishing the submitter.