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How Elixir trended on Hacker News

Elixir was mentioned 35,053 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Aug 2017 with 597 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Elixir appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
35,053
Peak month
Aug 2017 (597)
First seen
2007
2008201120142017202020232026
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Top Hacker News stories about Elixir

  1. 1.How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users 802 points · 251 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir 644 points · 172 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir 585 points · 85 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir 544 points · 110 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) 528 points · 162 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo 526 points · 153 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine 510 points · 130 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard? 499 points · 340 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27 495 points · 163 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Comparing Elixir and Go 489 points · 194 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.Elixir 1.5 released 479 points · 163 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Elixir 1.9 458 points · 169 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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