20 Years of Hacker News Reveal Programming Language Power Shifts

Analyzing vast amounts of community data is now accessible to developers through AI tools like Codex combined with data querying frameworks. The article demonstrates how 20 years of Hacker News discussions—stored in a compact 10GB parquet dataset—can be mined to reveal authentic adoption trends between competing technologies like Rust versus Go and Postgres versus MySQL. This approach offers a data-driven way to understand the genuine momentum of programming languages and databases based on real community discourse.