Data & Infrastructure (INFR)
Sector · Show HN · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC
launches · 3D Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 7–Oct 9 (same weekday) (21)
hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (1/17) vs Oct 5–Oct 7 (4/27)
— Not significant at current sample size: −8.9pp, 27 → 17 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).
trending score
Launches & hit rate
3 days left blank: votes still coming in (launches under 48h old), incomplete day, or no launches — not shown as zero.
Faded bars are incomplete days (today, or days before every selected source was being collected).
Key statistics
- Launches
- 6Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 5.813d
- 7D range
- 4 – 8Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 5.6%2/36 · Oct 8–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 69%12 daily chg
- Share of market
- 3.7%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
- Previous window
- 21Oct 7–Oct 9
Stocks in this sector (INFR)
Most buzz (comments gained) over the latest interval (Oct 17, 02:39 UTC → Oct 17, 13:13 UTC, 10.6h). 2 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capy-flash a 125B MoE model on two 16 GB consumer GPUs | INFR | 7 | +1 | ▲ +16.7% | 2 | 31h ago | |
| 2 | SpawnDroid, Cloud-Provisioned Android Containers via WebRTC and ReDroid | INFR | 3 | +3IPO | — | 1 | 10h 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