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How Yaml trended on Hacker News

Yaml was mentioned 20,219 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2023 with 695 that month.

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

1. 1.YAML: probably not so great after all (2017) 673 points · 394 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV 492 points · 84 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.YAML: Probably not so great after all 445 points · 444 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Why are we templating YAML? (2019) 433 points · 654 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Graphtage: A semantic diff utility for JSON, HTML, YAML, CSV, etc 405 points · 51 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor 405 points · 223 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.I accidentally used YAML.parse instead of JSON.parse and it worked 346 points · 201 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Ask HN: Maybe I kind of suck as a programmer – how do I supercharge my work? 328 points · 121 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
9. 9.NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML 302 points · 284 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Kubernetes YAML Generator 270 points · 121 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm 266 points · 118 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.YAML: It's Time to Move On 265 points · 392 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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