What actually happens to Show HN projects?
I was curious about what happens to repositories after they are posted to Hacker News. I pulled Show HN data from BigQuery and combined it with GitHub API calls. Data covers 2021-2025 (with GitHub API calls through mid-January 2026). Repositories are dying faster The first chart shows when repositories die after their HN submission. 2025 data is brutal: more repos either died before posting or die…