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How “npm” trended on Hacker News

“Npm” was mentioned 40,633 times on Hacker News between 2010 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2016 with 1,093 that month.

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

1. 1.NPM Is Joining GitHub 1,829 points · 557 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
2. 2.NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program? 1,725 points · 854 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig 1,431 points · 314 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.NPM debug and chalk packages compromised 1,372 points · 757 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised 1,233 points · 1,019 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected 1,038 points · 775 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps 924 points · 1,063 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Npm Audit: broken by design? 872 points · 259 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.We all dodged a bullet 830 points · 484 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Security issue related to the NPM registry 667 points · 281 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app` 599 points · 459 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Malicious crossenv package on npm 578 points · 228 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN

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