Hardware & IoT (HDWR)
Sector · Show HN · data as of Oct 31, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC
launches · 7D Oct 24–Oct 30 vs Oct 17–Oct 23 (20)
hit rate · Oct 22–Oct 28 settled (2/22) vs Oct 15–Oct 21 (3/22)
— Not significant at current sample size: −4.5pp, 22 → 22 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
- 1Oct 30
- Avg daily launches
- 3.227d
- 7D range
- 1 – 6Oct 24–Oct 30
- Hit rate
- 9.1%2/22 · Oct 22–Oct 28
- Volatility
- 106%25 daily chg
- Share of market
- 2.4%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
- Previous window
- 20Oct 17–Oct 23
Stocks in this sector (HDWR)
Most buzz (comments gained) over the latest interval (Oct 30, 16:20 UTC → Oct 31, 15:35 UTC, 23.3h). 3 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32 | HDWR | 126 | +123 | — | 35 | 36 | 6d ago |
| 2 | Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology | HDWR | 4 | +1 | — | 2 | 3 | 4d ago |
| 3 | Cerebellum small model on the robot, big model for what it can't undo | HDWR | 3 | +3IPO | — | 1 | 1 | 3d 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