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How Nginx trended on Hacker News

Nginx was mentioned 30,494 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2016 with 336 that month.

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

1. 1.Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx 1,384 points · 346 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork 1,131 points · 475 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks 1,057 points · 383 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol 810 points · 298 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Nginx Unit 680 points · 232 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Nginx Playground 603 points · 41 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim 586 points · 217 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it? 557 points · 676 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Nginx 1.0.0 is out 549 points · 75 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
10. 10.NGINX open sources TCP load balancing 500 points · 117 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Nginx established as a company 463 points · 71 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Nginx for Developers: An Introduction 434 points · 138 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN

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