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How “serverless” trended on Hacker News

“Serverless” was mentioned 23,599 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Sep 2019 with 439 that month.

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

1. 1.Serverless: slower and more expensive 1,787 points · 712 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform 922 points · 270 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017) 746 points · 395 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Neon – Serverless Postgres 667 points · 330 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Serverless Horrors 626 points · 484 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Serverless Docker Beta 595 points · 228 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
7. 7.The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled 575 points · 648 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Back to the '70s with Serverless 518 points · 298 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.SQLite Is Serverless 501 points · 440 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture 480 points · 260 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Serverless Architectures 477 points · 202 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 465 points · 222 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN

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