Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

the funniest thing about this graph is that it proves there was a raw drop off in all popularities in the last 2 years, which of course directly coincides with the great layoffening that has been happening for almost 3 years now.

this shows that people are definitely rotating out of "web technologies" in general, not because they aren't useful, but because the money isn't there anymore.

perhaps a large chunk have switched to AI hype trains, and it would be interesting to compare raw results of different AI headlines, but i suspect maybe 30% of people have left tech all together.

I think it's attention and mindshare going to AI

we would have to look at raw numbers, like, perhaps web tech is just "flat", not declining.

but my suspicion without evidence is that the gross number of people in the industry is actually dropping, though it should be increasing.

This would be an interesting request to directly ask the data. Which you can do using our "chat with hacker news data" free tool: https://camelai.com/hackernews/

No login required.

thank you very much for suggesting that and for making it available without a login :)

i went there on mobile and asked two questions. it went pretty well from a UI and response quality perspective. the data they showed me didn't show any obvious trends, but i suspect it's because i didn't specify a long enough list of technologies, and that some general terms were included like "machine learning" and "llm" which had an effect of hiding the trends i was looking for.

a great start and much more enjoyable than writing the sql or for loops myself :)