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How Apache trended on Hacker News

Apache was mentioned 47,268 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2021 with 445 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Apache 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 Apache

1. 1.I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka 1,797 points · 226 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Apache ECharts 1,658 points · 250 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license 1,277 points · 362 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Apache Superset 696 points · 189 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0 686 points · 164 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
6. 6.What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka 597 points · 276 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system 587 points · 237 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Apache Arrow 3.0 561 points · 192 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU 547 points · 139 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Apache Guacamole 503 points · 116 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community 476 points · 244 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency 408 points · 164 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN

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