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How Mysql trended on Hacker News

Mysql was mentioned 56,704 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2022 with 478 that month.

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

1. 1.Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL 731 points · 294 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
2. 2.In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016) 643 points · 351 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Leaving MySQL 626 points · 341 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 521 points · 328 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Show HN: With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP 501 points · 194 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit? 441 points · 202 comments · 2010 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account? 410 points · 258 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.An open MySQL bug receives a real Birthday cake 406 points · 78 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
9. 9.A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go 405 points · 80 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
10. 10.MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL 398 points · 180 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Why we're ending support for MySQL 397 points · 218 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL 394 points · 175 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

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