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How Golang trended on Hacker News

Golang was mentioned 36,608 times on Hacker News between 2009 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2021 with 358 that month.

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

1. 1.Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang 748 points · 525 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
2. 2.How I keep myself alive using Golang 726 points · 132 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride 717 points · 492 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
4. 4.I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020) 428 points · 464 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Golang SSH Security 426 points · 103 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Tell HN: My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping 424 points · 173 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Show HN: I made Devzat – It's like Discord but in the terminal, over SSH 391 points · 147 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Show HN: HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI 360 points · 47 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Deleting the golang subreddit 358 points · 367 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022) 342 points · 511 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Hyrum’s Law in Golang 317 points · 183 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Why I Don't Like Golang (2016) 296 points · 287 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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