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How Fortran trended on Hacker News

Fortran was mentioned 17,822 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Apr 2023 with 307 that month.

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

1. 1.Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting? 2,634 points · 531 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 1970-present 497 points · 155 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework 422 points · 246 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Fortran is still a thing 407 points · 243 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) 373 points · 293 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: CodeTracer – A time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust 334 points · 52 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy 281 points · 232 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Fortran Web Framework 272 points · 167 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D 263 points · 124 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ask HN: In what ways is programming more difficult today than it was years ago? 237 points · 318 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Fortran on WebAssembly 235 points · 51 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Show HN: A Fortran web framework 227 points · 88 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

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