HackerNoon Decoded: And the Award For the Most Read Category Goes To...

Written by decoded | Published 2025/01/15
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TLDRWhat were the Top 10 categories that grabbed more attention than the others? Well, you’re about to find out. via the TL;DR App

Hola Hackers!

Now that 2024 has ended, we thought it would be interesting to recap our community’s viewing history. HackerNoon publishes hundreds of articles every week, but what were the Top 10 categories that grabbed more attention than the others? Well, you’re about to find out.

The HackerNoon community had a total reading time of 44 YEARS, 6 MONTHS, AND 18 DAYS, but the one category that caught our community's attention more than the others was… Programming!

Category

Number of Years Read

Programming

9.32

Tech-stories

6.75

Machine-learning

5.32

Product-management

3.69

Web3

3.14

Cloud

2.54

Gaming

2.01

Finance

1.69

Cybersecurity

1.60

Data-science

1.59

With over 9.3 years of reading time, HackerNoon readers kept coming back and back for what the Programming category had in store.

Well, no surprises there! HackerNoon is home to some of the most in-depth guides and tutorials you’ll find on the internet on, quite frankly, any programming language you can think of!

But it’s not all just code; the Tech-stories category also caught our community’s attention, underscoring the prominence of thought leadership and other news-worthy items that our readers care about.

Artificial intelligence also continued to grab our community’s attention as the category had a reading time of over five years!

Ok, so what about the most-read stories in each of the categories? Well, friends, we have the data for that too!

Here are the Top 3 stories in the most-read categories of 2024.

Programming

Tech-Stories

(Wow, a double whammy for Egor Karitskii! Congrats!)

Artificial Intelligence

(This time, Andrey Kustarev occupied the top slots! Congrats!)

Product Management

Web3

Cloud

(Congrats to MinIO for dominating this one!)

Gaming

Finance

Cybersecurity

(Pretty impressive, Konstantin Sakhchinskiy!)

Data Science


And that’s a wrap! What did you think? Any surprises here? Let us know, and see y’all throughout 2025!

Read More About HackerNoon’s (and the HackerNoon Community’s) 2024:


Written by decoded | Welcome to HackerNoon Decoded—the ultimate recap of the stories, writers, and trends that defined your year!
Published by HackerNoon on 2025/01/15