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How “puppet” trended on Hacker News

“Puppet” was mentioned 17,902 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2022 with 353 that month.

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

1. 1.Puppeteer Support for Firefox 655 points · 90 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node API 406 points · 100 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough 362 points · 203 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck 354 points · 265 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox 335 points · 127 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig 319 points · 137 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust 312 points · 167 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js 282 points · 80 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Theheadless.dev – open source Puppeteer and Playwright knowledge base 255 points · 99 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
10. 10.A Markov chain trained on the Puppet documentation and H. P. Lovecraft 242 points · 34 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible? 218 points · 179 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative built in Python on ZeroMQ 169 points · 72 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN

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