The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing
Summary
The article analyzes the share of Show HN posts on Hacker News and finds it rising over the past decade, now exceeding 12% by December 2025, likely aided by LLM-enabled coding. It also reports that the average Show HN score has fallen significantly, from about 19.53 to 9.04, suggesting declining quality signals or reader fatigue. The author documents the data sources and methods (BigQuery, Python, CSV export) and plans to update the analysis periodically.