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How “leftpad” trended on Hacker News

“Leftpad” was mentioned 1,063 times on Hacker News between 2016 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2016 with 64 that month.

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

1. 1.LKML: New syscall: leftpad() 237 points · 73 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
2. 2.LeftPad and Go: can tooling help? 119 points · 59 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Breaking "provably correct" Leftpad 68 points · 22 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Ask HN: How should open source support critical dependencies? 36 points · 20 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Leftpad-rs 24 points · 23 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Ask HN: Post leftpad-ocolypse, practical guidelines for Node devs? 19 points · 9 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Ask HN: Does your company have an open source release policy? 16 points · 4 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Breaking "Provably Correct" Leftpad 11 points · 1 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Let's Prove Leftpad 8 points · 0 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Leftpad: We haven't forgotten how to code 4 points · 0 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
11. 11.MVC Podcast Ep.21: Npm/leftpad, MS Tay AI Bot, Apps.gov, and More 3 points · 1 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
12. 12.24 days of Rust – leftpad 3 points · 0 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

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