Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "bit" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "bit" over time.
The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented as 1 and 0, but other representations such as true/false, yes/no, on/off, and +/− are also widely used. Read more on Wikipedia