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How Node.js trended on Hacker News

Node.js was mentioned 63,198 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2026 with 522 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Node.js 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 Node.js

1. 1.Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript 1,204 points · 554 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node 1,072 points · 283 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
3. 3.TrendMicro Node.js HTTP server listening on localhost can execute commands 1,030 points · 229 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Things I Regret About Node.js [video] 994 points · 491 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others 935 points · 234 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Modern Node.js Patterns 869 points · 428 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation 794 points · 81 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Node.js in Flame Graphs 778 points · 240 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Node.js v6.0 Released 728 points · 159 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Fetch API has landed into Node.js 679 points · 206 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored 631 points · 184 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012) 624 points · 552 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

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