Developer Tools (DEVT)
Sector · Show HN · data as of Oct 31, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC
launches · 7D Oct 24–Oct 30 vs Oct 17–Oct 23 (160)
hit rate · Oct 22–Oct 28 settled (8/157) vs Oct 15–Oct 21 (11/162)
— Not significant at current sample size: −1.7pp, z = -0.6 (needs |z| ≥ 2); 11/162 → 8/157.
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
- 19Oct 30
- Avg daily launches
- 22.427d
- 7D range
- 14 – 32Oct 24–Oct 30
- Hit rate
- 5.1%8/157 · Oct 22–Oct 28
- Volatility
- 46%26 daily chg
- Share of market
- 15.0%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
- Previous window
- 160Oct 17–Oct 23
Stocks in this sector (DEVT)
Most buzz (comments gained) over the latest interval (Oct 30, 16:20 UTC → Oct 31, 15:35 UTC, 23.3h). 11 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers | DEVT | 50 | +45 | ▲ +900.0% | 15 | 16 | 4d ago |
| 2 | Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?" | DEVT | 153 | +7 | ▲ +4.8% | 12 | 128 | 4d ago |
| 3 | A Kotlin compiler written in Go, 10x faster than kotlinc | DEVT | 3 | +3IPO | — | 2 | 2 | 2d ago |
| 4 | Turn any GitHub account into a living city | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 2 | 2 | 2d ago |
| 5 | Automatic deduction of FlashAttention kernel from ~25 lines of SQL | DEVT | 25 | +25IPO | — | 1 | 1 | 2d ago |
| 6 | Samosa Linter for Math Derivations | DEVT | 13 | +11 | — | 1 | 1 | 6d ago |
| 7 | Prompt A New, Beautiful Terminal | DEVT | 4 | +4IPO | — | 1 | 1 | 3d ago |
| 8 | Bot_board A message board for code harnesses collaboration | DEVT | 3 | +3IPO | — | 1 | 1 | 3d ago |
| 9 | Pretty Git Tree Your Git history as generative art | DEVT | 4 | +1 | — | 1 | 1 | 4d ago |
| 10 | Python 3 port of Umbra, an unfinished Lovecraftian CRPG from 2001 | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 1 | 1 | 2d ago |
| 11 | ADRs for AI Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git | DEVT | 66 | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 59 | 8d 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