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How Postgres trended on Hacker News

Postgres was mentioned 67,235 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2023 with 931 that month.

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

1. 1.Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres 1,562 points · 417 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Postgres IDE in VS Code 1,040 points · 407 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Postgres gets support for upsert 1,003 points · 109 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized 958 points · 495 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Postgres WASM 887 points · 185 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
6. 6.System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server 852 points · 158 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Free Postgres databases for small projects 841 points · 223 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser 814 points · 171 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features 801 points · 160 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Google Cloud SQL for Postgres 755 points · 232 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL 731 points · 294 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Lesser-known Postgres features 702 points · 166 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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