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How “conway's law” trended on Hacker News

“Conway's law” was mentioned 1,712 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Dec 2022 with 41 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “conway's law” 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 “conway's law”

1. 1.Linux follows an inverse form of Conway's Law 151 points · 58 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Conway's Law 134 points · 51 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Thoughts on Conway's Law and the Software Stack 103 points · 22 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Thoughts on Conway's Law and the Software Stack (2019) 99 points · 24 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Conway's Law 81 points · 26 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Conway's Law 51 points · 12 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Embracing Conway's law 45 points · 4 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
8. 8.AWS Proton is Conway’s Law-as-a-Service 30 points · 2 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Conway's Law (2022) 26 points · 1 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Conway's Law (A software system will resemble the organization that built it) 18 points · 3 comments · 2007 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Microservices, or How I Learned to Stop Making Monoliths and Love Conway’s Law 12 points · 0 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Branding and Conway’s Law 12 points · 3 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN

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