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How “factorio” trended on Hacker News

“Factorio” was mentioned 5,413 times on Hacker News between 2013 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2024 with 227 that month.

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

1. 1.Factorio 1.0 1,878 points · 615 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories 749 points · 209 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch 744 points · 359 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Factorio – a game where you can automate basically anything 582 points · 113 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Factorio 1.1 stable 468 points · 178 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws 466 points · 122 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.The Factorio Mindset 464 points · 349 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.TDD from the Factorio Team 457 points · 303 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer 450 points · 104 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me 423 points · 430 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Factorio and Software Engineering 417 points · 164 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone 412 points · 344 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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