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How Grpc trended on Hacker News

Grpc was mentioned 7,127 times on Hacker News between 2015 and 2026, peaking in Aug 2022 with 159 that month.

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

1. 1.Postman Now Supports gRPC 409 points · 211 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Announcing gRPC Support in Nginx 384 points · 80 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
3. 3.gRPC-Web is going GA 345 points · 137 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
4. 4.gRPC-Web: Moving past REST+JSON towards type-safe Web APIs 329 points · 132 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Why does gRPC insist on trailers? 324 points · 125 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design (2020) 323 points · 276 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Connect: A Better gRPC 308 points · 91 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.gRPC: Internet-scale RPC framework is now 1.0 266 points · 108 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Why We’re Switching to gRPC 244 points · 155 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ask HN: What is your learning strategy? 234 points · 99 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
11. 11.gRPC: The Bad Parts 228 points · 223 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.GRPC: A high performance, open source, general RPC framework 223 points · 62 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN

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