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Hacker News Term Histogram

Charts how often several search terms appear in Hacker News stories per month over a date range you pick.

Artifact by Simon Willison

IndexedApache-2.0Charts & diagramsNo sign-up

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Opens tools.simonwillison.net in a new tab. Nothing to install.

You provide
Search terms and dates
You get
Bar chart and table of monthly counts
Account
No sign-up needed
AI
No AI: a plain tool
Your input
Not stated: check the tool's privacy notes before using private data
Price
Free to use
Made with
AI-built app
Source
Open source
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Answered on Oct 31, 2026

About

Hacker News Term Histogram is an AI-built single-page app in the visualization category (trend chart). It opens in your browser, so there is nothing to install. You provide search terms and dates and get bar chart and table of monthly counts. It needs no account. It is a plain tool: no AI model is involved. The source code is public on GitHub (simonw/tools).

Category: Charts & diagrams · trend chart

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Details

Auth
No auth
License
Apache-2.0
First seen
Oct 31, 2026
Last checked
Oct 31, 2026
Source
GitHub

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Hacker News Term Histogram: free online tool. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/artifacts/hacker-news-term-histogram (last updated 2026-10-31)