Hacker News with Generative AI: Popularity

Reddit overtakes X in popularity of social media platforms in UK (theguardian.com)
Reddit, the American online discussion platform, has overtaken X to become the fifth most popular social media platform in the UK, according to the communications watchdog.

Social Media, Reddit, UK, Popularity

6 points by nickcotter 51 days ago | 4 comments

Oh, WoW (theverge.com)
World of Warcraft, or WoW, is like the Red Hot Chili Peppers of the massively multiplayer online roleplaying genre: not only is it still going strong but it’s also somehow even bigger than you thought.

Gaming, Culture, Popularity

12 points by drdee 91 days ago | 0 comments

Rust Resumes Rise in Popularity (infoworld.com)
Rust, the fast and memory-safe programming language born out of Mozilla, has resumed its rise up the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, although it still has not cracked the index’s top 10.

Programming Languages, Rust, Popularity, Software Development

14 points by mirzap 102 days ago | 2 comments

Rust went from a side project to the most-loved language (2023) (technologyreview.com)

Programming Languages, Rust, Software Development, Popularity

35 points by shoggouth 169 days ago | 15 comments

The music industry is engineering artist popularity (theguardian.com)

Music Industry, Popularity, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence

19 points by jakub_g 172 days ago | 11 comments

Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity [audio] (syntax.fm)

Databases, Popularity, Software, Audio

168 points by thunderbong 220 days ago | 175 comments

NPM package is-even has over 140k weekly downloads (npmjs.com)

NPM, JavaScript, Software, Popularity

47 points by r_singh 250 days ago | 74 comments