Prompt injection on Hacker News, month by month since 2023
Monthly count of Hacker News items carrying both tokens ‘prompt’ and ‘injection’ since January 2023, one GROUP BY over hackernews.items. Measured 2026-09-09: 1.23 s, 13,655,449 rows read, $0.0073 of machine time, $0 charged. Rows land every few minutes; the current month is partial.
Evidence
45 rows 13,655,449 rows read 1,234 ms complete machine cost $0.007268 charged $0.00 · free slack
| m Date | n UInt64 |
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Query
SELECT toStartOfMonth(original_timestamp) AS m, count() AS n
FROM hackernews.items
WHERE original_timestamp >= '2023-01-01'
AND hasToken(search_text_lc, 'prompt')
AND hasToken(search_text_lc, 'injection')
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