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How Replit trended on Hacker News

Replit was mentioned 2,328 times on Hacker News between 2011 and 2026, peaking in Jun 2021 with 232 that month.

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

1. 1.Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project 4,022 points · 1,274 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Launch HN: Slip (YC S21) – Build and sell interactive programming courses 399 points · 108 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ... 390 points · 78 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Replit Mobile App 372 points · 207 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
5. 5.How did Replit respond to this blog post? 300 points · 115 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into browser games 293 points · 101 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads 269 points · 58 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Replit now supports every programming language in Nix 263 points · 81 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021) 192 points · 114 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base 179 points · 160 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Replit's in-browser coding AI 163 points · 82 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Replit.com (YC W18) raises $80M Series B 160 points · 101 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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