State of Developer signals: Hacker News, npm and PyPI: October 2026

Aggregates computed from our own pull of the actor output. This is a 49-record sample pull, not a census of the source, so read it as a snapshot of recent records rather than a market total.

49 records pulled 2026-10-13; createdAt runs 2026-07-20 to 2026-10-13.
points (in 45 rows): min 1, median 2, max 108, total 447.

Top values of source (records)

Valuerecords
hackernews45
npm2
pypi2

Top values of recordType (records)

Valuerecords
story45
package4

Top values of kind (records)

Valuerecords
showHn26
story17
askHn2

Earlier months

MonthRecordsNewest record
2026-10492026-10-13

Raw data: dataset page | JSON | machine-readable stats: data/developer-signals.json. Source actor: developer-signals on the Apify Store.

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