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How Javascript trended on Hacker News

Javascript was mentioned 306,775 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in May 2020 with 2,332 that month.

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

1. 1.Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? 3,270 points · 473 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript 1,714 points · 469 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
3. 3.A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used 1,447 points · 259 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig 1,431 points · 314 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
5. 5.JavaScript Temporal is coming 1,405 points · 399 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework 1,386 points · 322 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Show HN: Tetris in a PDF 1,289 points · 223 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) 1,274 points · 231 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020) 1,256 points · 728 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
10. 10.My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback 1,251 points · 480 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web 1,216 points · 345 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
12. 12.How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only? 1,149 points · 515 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN

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