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How “pair programming” trended on Hacker News

“Pair programming” was mentioned 11,955 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2022 with 178 that month.

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

1. 1.Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal 432 points · 156 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Show HN: Floobits – Remote pair programming done right 375 points · 135 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new company? 331 points · 276 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Ask HN: Can the “Who is Hiring?” post include a bit about the interview process? 328 points · 109 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Ask HN: How to Teach Coding? 322 points · 121 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Tuple: Pair Programming Tool for macOS 276 points · 144 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing 264 points · 110 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Pair Programming Antipatterns 247 points · 131 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code 242 points · 72 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Show HN: Pop.com – pair programming with low-latency, Screenhero-style sharing 225 points · 125 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Ask HN: Has there been any academic research into software interviewing? 206 points · 122 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing 184 points · 263 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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