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How “graphql” trended on Hacker News

“Graphql” was mentioned 23,878 times on Hacker News between 2015 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2020 with 499 that month.

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

1. 1.After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL 1,259 points · 698 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman 758 points · 182 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.GraphQL kinda sucks 720 points · 433 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo 526 points · 153 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
5. 5.John Resig: Introducing the GraphQL Guide 506 points · 171 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Why not use GraphQL? 460 points · 456 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization? 457 points · 236 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Pg_GraphQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL 431 points · 99 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020? 428 points · 433 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Hacker News Clone Using GraphQL and React 418 points · 181 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Graphcool – Serverless GraphQL Back End 413 points · 118 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Show HN: Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres 382 points · 103 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN

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