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How “vibe coding” trended on Hacker News

“Vibe coding” was mentioned 19,110 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2026 with 2,167 that month.

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

1. 1.Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others 935 points · 234 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Vibe code is legacy code 758 points · 454 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker 676 points · 215 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? 632 points · 611 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics 516 points · 142 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app 429 points · 259 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy 400 points · 313 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir 394 points · 72 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.I know when you're vibe coding 353 points · 173 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It 315 points · 119 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Running Qwen3 on your macbook, using MLX, to vibe code for free 286 points · 163 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12."Vibe code hell" has replaced "tutorial hell" in coding education 283 points · 161 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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