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How Git trended on Hacker News

Git was mentioned 176,221 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Apr 2026 with 2,615 that month.

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

1. 1.Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative) 1,538 points · 400 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Keybase launches encrypted Git 1,427 points · 270 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
3. 3.My Favourite Git Commit 1,313 points · 370 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations 1,209 points · 508 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
5. 5.US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits 1,198 points · 378 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
6. 6.YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git 1,098 points · 315 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
7. 7.20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions 1,062 points · 444 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Beej's Guide to Git 1,062 points · 311 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.The largest Git repo 1,053 points · 402 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text 935 points · 351 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client 924 points · 524 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Git's list of banned C functions 876 points · 613 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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