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How “selenium” trended on Hacker News

“Selenium” was mentioned 6,060 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2020 with 93 that month.

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

1. 1.DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts 1,067 points · 265 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Show HN: Skyvern – Browser automation using LLMs and computer vision 422 points · 139 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities? 408 points · 229 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright 408 points · 171 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
5. 5.LaVague: Open-source Large Action Model to automate Selenium browsing 378 points · 95 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Free Hotel Wifi with Python and Selenium 327 points · 142 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Launch HN: Skyvern (YC S23) – open-source AI agent for browser automations 327 points · 74 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI 326 points · 86 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE 294 points · 120 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Launch HN: Reflect (YC S20) – No-code test automation for web apps 262 points · 102 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents 259 points · 100 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives? 192 points · 146 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN

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