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How Perl trended on Hacker News

Perl was mentioned 57,809 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2025 with 719 that month.

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

1. 1.Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0 809 points · 319 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
2. 2.93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs 689 points · 132 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku 619 points · 439 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly 617 points · 562 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
5. 5.93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019) 515 points · 124 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Perl code that is syntactically correct only on Fridays 466 points · 223 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
7. 7.macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including Python, Ruby, and Perl 435 points · 433 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Why I’m Learning Perl 6 433 points · 369 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Perl 6 Released 432 points · 185 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
10. 10.93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) 431 points · 163 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Is Perl 6 Being Renamed? 399 points · 410 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Perl's decline was cultural 395 points · 453 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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