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How “waterfall” trended on Hacker News

“Waterfall” was mentioned 8,280 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Sep 2024 with 189 that month.

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

1. 1.Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first 506 points · 254 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.We've invented waterfall 285 points · 168 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Real Life Model of M.C. Escher’s “Waterfall” 254 points · 50 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back 225 points · 191 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Agile projects have become waterfall projects with sprints 214 points · 206 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub 204 points · 27 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in 197 points · 308 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.The Waterfall methodology was a historic accident and they knew it 196 points · 165 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
9. 9.AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back into Agile 176 points · 173 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls 170 points · 44 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.The Waterfall Model was a straw man argument from the beginning (2015) 163 points · 171 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Scrum is the new waterfall 127 points · 177 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN

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