Show HN: Posts p/month more than doubled in the last year

Hacker News just hit the turbo button on its show-and-tell. The community reports +125% more “Show HN” posts in January compared to last year, and they now make up about 15% of all submissions, based on data pulled from the HN Algolia API. For the uninitiated, “Show HN” is where builders share something you can actually try—think demo day for the internet, with instant feedback and upvotes.

Cue the drama. The one-liner “More AI?” became the comment-section wink, with many assuming large language models (LLMs—AI tools that help write text and code) are powering the surge. One commenter cheered the trend, saying skeptics who claim AI productivity is a “hallucination” are going to go bonkers. Others fired back: is the quality dropping? A few claimed the bar is lowering, and one user flat-out ruled, “This is an interesting post, but not a Show HN,” citing the rules that you should share something people can play with. Another voice wondered if it’s “just slop” or genuinely better projects, noting that more posts might mean fewer upvotes per post, regardless of quality. It’s a classic internet showdown: builder gold rush vs. quality control squad, with AI memes cracking jokes in the front row.