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How “terraform” trended on Hacker News

“Terraform” was mentioned 23,465 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jul 2023 with 644 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “terraform” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
23,465
Peak month
Jul 2023 (644)
First seen
2007
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Top Hacker News stories about “terraform”

  1. 1.Terraform 1.0 691 points · 308 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Terraform 600 points · 110 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor 405 points · 223 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas 385 points · 317 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Terraform should have remained stateless 381 points · 319 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Terraforming 1Password 346 points · 118 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Backblaze is now a Terraform provider 317 points · 112 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.AWS Lambda Terraform Cookbook with working examples 306 points · 80 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible 300 points · 194 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Terraform 0.12 281 points · 161 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation 267 points · 219 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu 255 points · 183 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN

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