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How “chef” trended on Hacker News

“Chef” was mentioned 18,755 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2013 with 235 that month.

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

1. 1.In defense of the Google chef 994 points · 188 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Ultrasonic Chef's Knife 824 points · 671 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Kim Jong-il's Sushi Chef 728 points · 101 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors 452 points · 314 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough 362 points · 203 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star 349 points · 150 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
7. 7.So You Wanna Be a Chef - Anthony Bourdain 259 points · 63 comments · 2010 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Update from Chef 251 points · 259 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres 241 points · 805 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
10. 10.AWS OpsWorks - Flexible Application Management in the Cloud Using Chef 208 points · 77 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: Knowledge graph of restaurants and chefs, built using LLMs 201 points · 39 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Chef cofounder on CentOS: It’s time to open source everything 187 points · 91 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN

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