github.com won every month of 2026 so far — 650 front-page appearances, nearly 8× the runner-up

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“What about for all of 2026 so far, and per month?”

The count covers all 243 daily Hacker News front-page archive pages from 2026-01-01 through 2026-08-31, tallying every story slot with a displayed outbound domain. github.com appeared 650 times across 222 of 243 days; twitter.com, in second place year-to-date, appeared 82 times.

Front-page appearances by domain, 2026 year-to-date, top 25

Appearances = listed story slots, Jan 1 – Aug 31, 2026. Hover a bar for days present and dates.

Who made each month’s top five

Cell colour and number = appearances that month; only domains ranking in a month’s top five (ties included) are shown. Hover a cell for rank and days.

github.com month by month: March peak, softer summer

Monthly appearances of github.com on daily front pages

GitHub’s 650 appearances are nearly eight times twitter.com’s 82 — and more than the next nine domains combined — per the official daily archives, e.g. news.ycombinator.com

GitHub ranked first in all eight months: 92, 90, 101, 91, 72, 68, 72 and 64 appearances from January to August — news.ycombinator.com

March was GitHub’s peak at 101; August, at 64, is its lowest complete month so far — a 37% drop from the peak — news.ycombinator.com

The runner-up spot rotated: bbc.com took it in January and March, anthropic.com in February, twitter.com and arxiv.org in later months — no second-place domain ever passed 14 in a month — news.ycombinator.com

Ranked table, 2026 year-to-date

#	Domain	Appearances	Days present	First day	Last day	Source

Data: official Hacker News “past/front” daily archive pages, all 243 days from 2026-01-01 through 2026-08-31; pages generally list the day’s 30 top stories. Each outbound-domain-bearing story slot counted once; Ask HN and internal entries without a displayed domain excluded. “Most popular” means total listed story appearances, not summed points or unique stories. Displayed subpaths normalized to parent domains (github.com/owner → github.com, twitter.com/user → twitter.com); other hostnames kept as displayed. Top 25 domains year-to-date and top five ranks per month (ties included) shown; 25 YTD rows, 58 monthly rows. September not included. Research updated 2026-09-02.

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