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Node.js

Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.

Fig. 1
Node.js's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
00.250.50.751AprMayJunJulAugSept
Node.js%

Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.

Fig. 2
New GitHub repos a week: nodejs
010002000300020 Jul10 Aug24 Aug7 Sept21 Sept12 Oct19 Oct
nodejs

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Job ads naming it, by week

Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names Node.js. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.

  1. 10 Aug 7
  2. 17 Aug 6
  3. 24 Aug 4
  4. 31 Aug 0
  5. 7 Sept 1
  6. 14 Sept 1
  7. 21 Sept 3
  8. 28 Sept 9
  9. 5 Oct 9
  10. 12 Oct 9
  11. 19 Oct 8
  12. 26 Oct 9

Biggest stories, last 90 days

  1. Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more399 pts · 214 comments · 24 Oct
  2. Node.js security advisory: Brotli decoder RCE (CVE-2026-111497)14 pts · 1 comments · 22 Oct
  3. Node.js Vulnerability Blog11 pts · 1 comments · 24 Oct
  4. Show HN: Knitting – A shared-memory concurrency runtime for Node.js,Bun,and Deno10 pts · 4 comments · 13 Oct
  5. Show HN: Node.JS in the Browser – An Open-source Alternative to WebContainers5 pts · 0 comments · 6 Aug
  6. Show HN: A benchmark comparison of C++ vs. Node.js performance5 pts · 1 comments · 25 Sept
  7. Show HN: Issue Apple and Google wallet passes from Node.js5 pts · 0 comments · 10 Aug
  8. Node.js sandboxes powered by QuickJS and WebAssembly4 pts · 0 comments · 31 Aug

Bets on Node.js

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