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How Php trended on Hacker News

Php was mentioned 173,575 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jun 2012 with 1,962 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Php appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
173,575
Peak month
Jun 2012 (1,962)
First seen
2007
2008201120142017202020232026

Top Hacker News stories about Php

  1. 1.Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? 3,270 points · 473 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Bill Atkinson has died 1,589 points · 273 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers 1,343 points · 524 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.PHP in 2019 908 points · 473 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Taking PHP Seriously 819 points · 652 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.PHP: A fractal of bad design 765 points · 495 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help 717 points · 306 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game 716 points · 193 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay 584 points · 278 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.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
  11. 11.Google results for PHP tutorials contain SQL injection vulnerabilities 556 points · 324 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Show HN: A Full-Stack Web Framework for Go 531 points · 99 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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