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How “agile” trended on Hacker News

“Agile” was mentioned 41,417 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Sep 2019 with 480 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “agile” 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 “agile”

1. 1.Ask HN: Are we overcomplicating software development? 639 points · 368 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die 616 points · 466 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Scrum is fragile, not Agile 534 points · 322 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016) 465 points · 229 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery? 449 points · 695 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: Open-Source, Free, Agile Project Management Tool 436 points · 134 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Agile Lite: Agile without all the burnout 427 points · 280 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer 408 points · 457 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending (2018) 400 points · 400 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
10. 10.DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf] 396 points · 132 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion 343 points · 313 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Ask HN: Solo devs, how do you plan your development? 338 points · 182 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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