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How Erlang trended on Hacker News

Erlang was mentioned 38,485 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2014 with 385 that month.

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

1. 1.Ten Years of Erlang 567 points · 149 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
2. 2.I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it 506 points · 176 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard? 499 points · 340 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Erlang/OTP 24 highlights 454 points · 100 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Why Erlang Matters 423 points · 207 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby 414 points · 293 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Which companies are using Erlang, and why? 394 points · 196 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
8. 8.How I fell in love with Erlang 394 points · 249 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Erlang/OTP 20.0 391 points · 99 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Adopting Erlang 366 points · 68 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
11. 11.What can I only do in Erlang? 356 points · 167 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations 355 points · 65 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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