Developer Tools (DEVT)
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) (79)
hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (11/83) vs Oct 5–Oct 7 (2/77)
— Not significant at current sample size: +10.7pp, 77 → 83 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
- 14Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 22.713d
- 7D range
- 8 – 31Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 11.4%18/158 · Oct 8–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 59%12 daily chg
- Share of market
- 16.1%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
- Previous window
- 79Oct 7–Oct 9
Stocks in this sector (DEVT)
Most buzz (comments gained) over the latest interval (Oct 17, 02:39 UTC → Oct 17, 13:13 UTC, 10.6h). 4 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Things to Do API | DEVT | 6 | +2 | — | 1 | 21h ago | |
| 2 | CADrs onshape rust clone | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 1 | 12h ago | |
| 3 | Programming Language Cup same tasks in 32 langs, pick the winner | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 1 | 11h ago | |
| 4 | Parsimony an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add | DEVT | 77 | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 4d 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