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

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

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

Fig. 2
PyPI downloads a week: uv
020.0M40.0M60.0M6 Jul20 Jul3 Aug17 Aug31 Aug14 Sept28 Sept12 Oct19 Oct
uv

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 uv. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.

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

Biggest stories, last 90 days

  1. Bringing uv and ty together312 pts · 125 comments · 20 Oct
  2. uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache231 pts · 118 comments · 31 Aug
  3. A plea not to use uv-build88 pts · 157 comments · 13 Oct
  4. Why Your Summer Wardrobe Should Include UV Protection, Linen Clothing6 pts · 1 comments · 16 Aug
  5. Release 0.12.10 · astral-sh/uv2 pts · 0 comments · 6 Sept
  6. Senv: Sandboxed Python environments with the uv workflow2 pts · 0 comments · 14 Aug
  7. Pull models in your Python script P2P with uv add pirateface1 pts · 0 comments · 13 Oct
  8. UV printer copies 3D objects (Strange Parts) [video]1 pts · 0 comments · 9 Aug

Bets on uv

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