MCP on Hacker News, month by month, with the sparkline drawn in the query

One statement over hackernews.items: monthly counts of the token ‘mcp’ since January 2025, with bar() drawing the sparkline in the result set. A hump, not a line: the peak was March 2026. hasToken is a whole-token match over a full-text index, so it counts the token, not the sense; rows land every few minutes, so your run will differ from this one by the day. Measured 2026-09-09: 0.76 s, 6,027,149 rows read, $0.0030 of machine time, $0 charged.

Evidence

Snapshot · frozen Sep 09, 2026, 13:28 UTC

20 rows 6,027,149 rows read 765 ms complete machine cost $0.003009 charged $0.00 · free slack

m Date	n UInt64	spark String

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Query

SELECT toStartOfMonth(original_timestamp) AS m, count() AS n,
       bar(n, 0, 2200, 20) AS spark
FROM hackernews.items
WHERE original_timestamp >= '2025-01-01'
  AND original_timestamp < toStartOfMonth(today())
  AND hasToken(search_text_lc, 'mcp')
GROUP BY m ORDER BY m LIMIT 100

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