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How Frontend trended on Hacker News

Frontend was mentioned 73,910 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2026 with 872 that month.

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

1. 1.Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? 3,270 points · 473 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible? 2,022 points · 1,091 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web 1,216 points · 345 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase 1,145 points · 297 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others 935 points · 234 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C 829 points · 962 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
7. 7.The Frontend Treadmill 756 points · 681 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps 696 points · 111 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Ask HN: Building a side project that makes money. Where to start? 602 points · 248 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning 537 points · 192 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: A Full-Stack Web Framework for Go 531 points · 99 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first 506 points · 254 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN

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