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Hacker News Trends – November 2025

In November 2025, Birbla tracked 256 high-signal Hacker News stories (+17 vs the prior month). github.com led publishers with 22 stories, while AI was the most-discussed topic (68 stories). Fastest-rising title keywords: against (4), become (4), recognition (3). Figures below are computed from Birbla’s StoryCache — original stats you can cite.

Top domains

DomainStories
github.com22
nytimes.com4
youtube.com4
arxiv.org4
theregister.com3
theguardian.com3
simonwillison.net2
tomshardware.com2
blog.cloudflare.com2
arstechnica.com2
twitter.com2
bbc.com2
wsj.com2
inventingthefuture.ghost.io1
atvbt.com1

Most-discussed topics

TopicStoriesvs prior month
AI68+12
Open Source40-10
Programming24+7
Launches18-15
Google17+5
LLM150
Automation13+7
Rust12+7
Startups10+5
Security9+7

Fastest-rising keywords

Ranked by month-over-month growth in story titles (min 2 mentions).

against (4, new)become (4, new)recognition (3, new)again (3, new)feature (3, new)crashes (3, new)account (3, new)november (3, new)openai (3, new)digital (3, new)testing (3, new)security (3, new)windows (3, new)message (3, new)cloud (5, was 1)using (5, was 1)amazon (5, was 1)steam (2, new)zohran (2, new)mamdani (2, new)

Average score by topic

TopicAvg scoreStories
Space1944
Self-Hosted1714
Crypto1673
AI16568
Google16517
Python1654
Career1616
Databases1547
DevOps1464
Open Source14440

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