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Data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC · traction last updated Oct 17, 13:13 UTC · updates about once a day
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Biggest % gain over the latest interval (Oct 17, 02:39 UTC → Oct 17, 13:13 UTC, 10.6h), among products whose previous traction was 5+ (below that, 2 → 6 votes would read as +200%). 4 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gvmux A native macOS terminal with vertical tabs, built on libghostty | DEVT | 7 | +1 | ▲ +16.7% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 2 | Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScript | DEVT | 33 | +1 | ▲ +3.1% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 3 | My Terminal Themes Web App | DEVT | 43 | +1 | ▲ +2.4% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 4 | Proa A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering | DEVT | 105 | +1 | ▲ +1.0% | 0 | 2d ago |
Traction = current votes (PH) / points (HN) — early-adopter attention, not downloads or usage. Gained = traction gained between the two latest daily ingest runs; Gain % only when the previous traction was 5+. Buzz = comments gained in that interval. “frozen” = no longer tracked, so no current gain. How it works