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How “gig economy” trended on Hacker News

“Gig economy” was mentioned 4,493 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2018 with 108 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “gig economy” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “gig economy”

1. 1.California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees 721 points · 721 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
2. 2.The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess 329 points · 434 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
3. 3.The gig economy is quietly undermining a century of worker protections 284 points · 180 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.California is cracking down on the gig economy 264 points · 321 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
5. 5.'The Gig Economy' Is the New Term for Serfdom 241 points · 270 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Maybe the Gig Economy Isn’t Reshaping Work After All 225 points · 233 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll Proposition 22 222 points · 368 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Web3: A VC-funded gig economy of securities fraud 220 points · 190 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy 210 points · 145 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Oxford accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms 191 points · 115 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Gig-Economy Workers Are the Modern Proletariat 186 points · 124 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Managed by Bots: surveillance of gig economy workers 178 points · 92 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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