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How Ruby trended on Hacker News

Ruby was mentioned 149,778 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2013 with 1,431 that month.

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

1. 1.Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web 1,216 points · 345 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
2. 2.From Node to Ruby on Rails 941 points · 639 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Ruby 3.0 779 points · 281 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf] 710 points · 249 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler 667 points · 378 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI 645 points · 169 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Ruby 3.0 Preview 1 622 points · 202 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby 617 points · 268 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Ruby 3.3 605 points · 266 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover 597 points · 430 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay 584 points · 278 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku 578 points · 75 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN

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