Hacker News Leaderboard
87 companies with 50+ point Hacker News hits in 2026. Last updated October 17, 2026.
Calendar Year
Company Rankings (2026)
| Rank | Company | 50+ upvote posts | Total upvotes (50+ point posts) | Year Founded | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub | 102 | 71,437 | 2008 | acquired |
| 2 | Anthropic | 71 | 47,459 | 2021 | Series H |
| 3 | OpenAI | 70 | 41,213 | 2015 | Series F |
| 4 | Cloudflare | 43 | 15,802 | 2009 | public |
| 5 | Mistral AI | 17 | 10,425 | 2023 | Series D |
| 6 | Hugging Face | 16 | 7,716 | 2016 | Series D |
| 7 | Google Cloud | 13 | 3,688 | 1998 | public |
| 8 | Cursor | 12 | 3,003 | 2023 | Series B |
| 9 | OpenRouter | 11 | 4,593 | 2023 | acquired |
| 10 | Tailscale | 11 | 4,479 | 2019 | Series C |
| 11 | PlanetScale | 10 | 1,693 | 2018 | Series C |
| 12 | Zed | 9 | 4,599 | 2021 | Series B |
| 13 | ClickHouse | 8 | 1,463 | 2021 | Series D |
| 14 | Unsloth | 6 | 1,982 | 2023 | pre-seed |
| 15 | Greptile | 5 | 1,308 | 2021 | Series A |
| 16 | Railway | 5 | 1,268 | 2020 | Series B |
| 17 | Socket | 4 | 1,389 | 2020 | Series C |
| 18 | Modular | 4 | 1,146 | 2022 | Series B |
| 19 | TypeSafe AI | 3 | 2,762 | 2024 | Series A |
| 20 | Ngrok | 3 | 1,168 | 2015 | Series A |
| 21 | Fly.io | 3 | 987 | 2016 | Series C |
| 22 | Hatchet | 3 | 885 | 2023 | pre-seed |
| 23 | DBOS | 3 | 811 | 2023 | seed |
| 24 | Nanoclaw | 3 | 607 | 2023 | seed |
| 25 | Stripe | 3 | 605 | 2010 | Series H |
| 26 | Roboflow | 3 | 528 | 2020 | Series B |
| 27 | Prime Intellect | 3 | 458 | 2024 | Series A |
| 28 | PostHog | 3 | 436 | 2020 | Series D |
| 29 | exe.dev | 3 | 356 | 2025 | Series A |
| 30 | Modal | 3 | 285 | 2021 | Series D |
| 31 | Inngest | 3 | 246 | 2021 | seed |
| 32 | Semgrep | 2 | 1,578 | 2017 | Series D |
| 33 | Fireworks AI | 2 | 1,466 | 2022 | Series D |
| 34 | JFrog | 2 | 788 | 2008 | public |
| 35 | Ollama | 2 | 704 | 2023 | pre-seed |
| 36 | Entire | 2 | 668 | 2026 | seed |
| 37 | Mintlify | 2 | 520 | 2022 | Series B |
| 38 | Warp | 2 | 484 | 2020 | Series B |
| 39 | Netlify | 2 | 450 | 2015 | Series D |
| 40 | Freestyle | 2 | 401 | 2024 | seed |
| 41 | Cockroach Labs | 2 | 354 | 2015 | Series F |
| 42 | Elastic | 2 | 353 | 2012 | public |
| 43 | Perplexity | 2 | 297 | 2022 | Series E |
| 44 | Together AI | 2 | 269 | 2022 | Series C |
| 45 | Lovable | 2 | 235 | 2023 | Series C |
| 46 | Trigger.dev | 2 | 129 | 2022 | pre-seed |
| 47 | Coder | 2 | 112 | 2017 | Series C |
| 48 | Fingerprint | 1 | 930 | 2019 | Series C |
| 49 | Box | 1 | 736 | 2005 | public |
| 50 | GitLab | 1 | 703 | 2014 | public |
| 51 | Tiger Data | 1 | 532 | 2015 | Series C |
| 52 | Vercel | 1 | 524 | 2015 | Series F |
| 53 | Vals | 1 | 495 | 2024 | Series A |
| 54 | Neon | 1 | 437 | 2021 | acquired |
| 55 | Endor Labs | 1 | 410 | 2021 | Series B |
| 56 | Nanonets | 1 | 377 | 2017 | Series B |
| 57 | QuestDB | 1 | 370 | 2019 | Series A |
| 58 | Comfy | 1 | 334 | 2024 | Series B |
| 59 | Linear | 1 | 317 | 2019 | Series C |
| 60 | Fivetran | 1 | 272 | 2012 | Series D |
| 61 | Tinybird | 1 | 246 | 2019 | Series B |
| 62 | Arcee AI | 1 | 231 | 2023 | Series A |
| 63 | Redis | 1 | 229 | 2011 | Series G |
| 64 | Supabase | 1 | 221 | 2020 | Series G |
| 65 | Infisical | 1 | 194 | 2022 | Series A |
| 66 | Replit | 1 | 180 | 2016 | Series D |
| 67 | Baseten | 1 | 155 | 2019 | Series E |
| 68 | Retool | 1 | 144 | 2017 | Series C |
| 69 | Eden AI | 1 | 133 | 2021 | pre-seed |
| 70 | Metabase | 1 | 132 | 2014 | Series B |
| 71 | Daily | 1 | 126 | 2016 | Series B |
| 72 | Mixedbread | 1 | 110 | 2023 | seed |
| 73 | Turso | 1 | 109 | 2021 | acquired |
| 74 | Hume | 1 | 103 | 2021 | Series B |
| 75 | Nango | 1 | 99 | 2022 | pre-seed |
| 76 | Sourcegraph | 1 | 97 | 2013 | Series D |
| 77 | Temporal | 1 | 84 | 2019 | Series E |
| 78 | SurrealDB | 1 | 75 | 2021 | Series A |
| 79 | CodeRabbit | 1 | 74 | 2023 | Series C |
| 80 | Chroma | 1 | 71 | 2022 | seed |
| 81 | Browserbase | 1 | 69 | 2024 | Series B |
| 82 | Infracost | 1 | 67 | 2020 | seed |
| 83 | BuildBuddy | 1 | 63 | 2019 | seed |
| 84 | Qodo | 1 | 52 | 2022 | Series B |
| 85 | Cerebrium | 1 | 51 | 2022 | seed |
| 86 | Webflow | 1 | 50 | 2012 | Series C |
| 87 | Reducto | 1 | 50 | 2023 | Series B |
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