The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing
3 months ago
- #Hacker News
- #LLM
- #Data Analysis
- The percentage of Show HN posts has increased from 2-3% (2012-2022) to over 12% as of December 2025, correlating with the rise of LLMs that can code.
- Average scores for Show HN posts have declined, dropping to 9.04 in December 2025 compared to 19.53 for regular stories.
- Possible reasons for the score decline include an oversaturation of Show HN posts or lower quality due to LLM-generated content.
- The analysis is based on Hacker News data, with methods including filtering Show HN posts by title and excluding 2026 data due to instability.
- Future updates to the analysis are planned, though tracking LLM-generated Show HN posts remains challenging.