# Google Trends for Hacker News

19 Hacker News commenters recommended Google Trends for Hacker News and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free tool showing topic trends across 18 years of Hacker News comments and helping surface buried articles; critics say data stops in 2019.

## Why people recommend it

- Finds buried interesting articles (2 comments): "this is actually a good tool to find articles that are interesting but sometimes buried" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677506)) "This is quite useful at-a-glance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675805))
- Clean, informative, functional layout (2 comments): "Really beautiful, informative, and functional layout." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674869)) "The example comparisons made me smile. Well done!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674699))
- Free, valuable, bookmark-worthy (2 comments): "offers an insane amount of value to people for free" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917162)) "awesome site. bookmarked for future use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703515))
- Cool tool people were hoping for (2 comments): "This is great, I was just hoping to find a tool like this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674738)) "This is actually very cool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675574))

## What people warn about

- Graphs seem unreliable or mismatched (2 comments): "C# actually just matches C in the graph even though it only highlights C# in the example article titles." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679993)) "I think these graphs are just too unreliable." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46098342))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Google Trends for Hacker News", https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-trends-for-hacker-news/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).