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How “prompt engineering” trended on Hacker News

“Prompt engineering” was mentioned 12,144 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2026 with 619 that month.

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

1. 1.The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering 915 points · 518 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation 887 points · 236 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn 711 points · 415 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right 469 points · 154 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product 464 points · 144 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Prompt engineering playbook for programmers 464 points · 169 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024) 392 points · 117 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems 354 points · 196 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process 319 points · 152 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks 304 points · 111 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial 284 points · 88 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Show HN: Open Prompts – dataset of 10M Stable Diffusion generations 279 points · 71 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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