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How Lua trended on Hacker News

Lua was mentioned 28,450 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jun 2020 with 323 that month.

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

1. 1.Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories 749 points · 209 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically 553 points · 109 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua 496 points · 97 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws 466 points · 122 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua 404 points · 93 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
6. 6.MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua 391 points · 162 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ... 390 points · 78 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Learn Lua in 15 Minutes 357 points · 94 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
9. 9.How to make a game from scratch using Lua and Löve 335 points · 102 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Lua is so underrated 321 points · 354 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code 321 points · 255 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Hammerspoon – macOS automation with Lua 319 points · 90 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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