How Cloudflare performs on Hacker News
Every HN submission linking to blog.cloudflare.com, cloudflare.com, and radar.cloudflare.com is tracked here — posts, points, comments, submitters, and blog authors — fetched live from the HN Algolia API. Use the filter bar to scope by time period. Select Year and enable Compare years to overlay two years side by side.
Live data from HN API
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Author leaderboards
cloudflare.com + Radar rankings
Data Source & Limitations
- Live data: All data is fetched in real-time from the HN Algolia API when you load this page. Results may vary slightly between sessions.
- API cap: The Algolia API limits results to 1,000 hits per query. To work around this, the dashboard splits requests into multiple time ranges. If a single range grows beyond 1,000 submissions, the oldest posts in that range may be missing. As of early 2026, all ranges are well within the cap.
- Blog author data: Author attribution comes from scraping Cloudflare blog post pages, not from HN. Some posts (especially older ones) may have incomplete or missing author info.
Trend Over Time (all data)
Cloudflare Mentions on HN
HN stories with "cloudflare" in the title — discussions, comparisons, outage reports, and third-party coverage regardless of the link URL. Filtered by the selected period.
HN Submitters Leaderboard
Blog Post Authors
Explore (title keywords)
Words, HN submitters, and blog authors sized by total HN points. Bigger = more points. Hover for details.
Best Time to Post
Average HN points and comments by day of the week and hour of the day (UTC). Based on HN submission timestamps.
cloudflare.com on HN
All HN submissions linking to *.cloudflare.com pages excluding blog.cloudflare.com (which has its own section above). Covers the main site, developers, radar, dash, etc. Filtered by the selected period above.
radar.cloudflare.com on HN
All HN submissions linking to the selected source. Filtered by the selected period above.