When Did AI Take Over Hacker News?
7 days ago
- #AI
- #Hacker News
- #Sentiment Analysis
- One in three top 10 Hacker News posts in August 2025 are AI-related.
- Analysis of Hacker News data from 2019 to 2025 shows AI-related posts peaked after GPT-4's release in Q1 2023.
- Sentiment towards AI on Hacker News has remained mostly stable since a negative spike in Q3 2021 due to Apple's NeuralHash and GitHub Copilot issues.
- 52.13% of AI-related posts had positive sentiment, 31.46% negative, and 16.41% neutral.
- Q3 2025 shows a slight increase in negative sentiment towards AI, but not enough to indicate a major trend.