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How “rest api” trended on Hacker News

“Rest api” was mentioned 29,218 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jun 2025 with 337 that month.

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

1. 1.Show HN: Mitmproxy2swagger – Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs 691 points · 85 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
2. 2.MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs 590 points · 71 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.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
4. 4.Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client 523 points · 154 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
5. 5.PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database 504 points · 205 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
6. 6.PostgREST – REST API from any PostgreSQL database 486 points · 204 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Microsoft REST API Guidelines 419 points · 161 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game 417 points · 113 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Ask HN: What is your go-to example for a good REST API? 401 points · 182 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API? 397 points · 249 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful 353 points · 564 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Microsoft REST API Guidelines 339 points · 142 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

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