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How “grunt” trended on Hacker News

“Grunt” was mentioned 9,288 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2014 with 163 that month.

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

1. 1.Show HN: Rabbits – Send an email to get any grunt-work programming job completed 256 points · 98 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant? 227 points · 62 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Launch HN: Wasp (YC W21) – DSL for building full-stack web apps 222 points · 79 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Grunt and RequireJS are out, it's all about Gulp and Browserify 208 points · 157 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Introducing Grunt 179 points · 28 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Launch HN: FloydHub (YC W17) – Heroku for Deep Learning 178 points · 85 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Why we should stop using Grunt and Gulp 162 points · 106 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Ask HN: Dealing with Career Mistakes 151 points · 145 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook 143 points · 41 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.No more `grunt watch` – faster builds with the Broccoli asset pipeline 131 points · 54 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Launch HN: Hamming (YC S24) – Automated Testing for Voice Agents 129 points · 66 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Grunt 1.0.0 released 128 points · 101 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

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