What the Internet Hyped vs. What Got Built: Sequoia’s 20-Year Hacker News Chart ExplainedSequoia analyzed two decades of Hacker News hype. Sequoia’s 20-Year Hacker News Chart, Source: XThe result resembles a plate of multicolored spaghetti, but the underlying message is remarkably coherent. What the Sequoia chart actually measuresThe chart tracks the relative popularity of subjects discussed on Hacker News, ranking each topic from number one to number 15 for every year since 2007. Despite the chart’s title, Hacker News is not “the internet.” That makes Hacker News a poor representation of mass culture but a potentially excellent early-warning system for developer behavior.