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How Swift trended on Hacker News

Swift was mentioned 61,427 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in May 2014 with 984 that month.

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

1. 1.CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated] 1,934 points · 1,094 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Swift is Open Source 1,824 points · 432 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
3. 3.“Swift will be open source later this year” 1,334 points · 548 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Introducing Swift 1,216 points · 712 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero 971 points · 261 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS 769 points · 409 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.The Swift SDK for Android 696 points · 280 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming 675 points · 539 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? 629 points · 601 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Apple is open sourcing Swift Build 612 points · 283 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS 611 points · 160 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust 597 points · 443 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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