Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "year" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "year" over time.
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year and the sidereal year are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. Read more on Wikipedia