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chatgpt vs deepseek on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, chatgpt leads chatgpt vs deepseek with 109,979 mentions to deepseek’s 10,115, peaking in Mar 2023.

Mention-over-time for chatgpt vs deepseek, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

chatgpt109,979 mentions, peak Mar 2023deepseek10,115 mentions, peak Jan 2025
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How the lead changed hands

Two AI shockwaves, offset: ChatGPT's late-2022 launch wall, then DeepSeek's lone Jan-2025 tower, the “Sputnik moment” years later.

The stories behind each line

Top “chatgpt” stories
  1. NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy 1,523 points · 2025
  2. ChatGPT Search 1,485 points · 2024
  3. Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists 1,299 points · 2025
  4. OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats 1,132 points · 2025
Top “deepseek” stories
  1. DeepSeek-R1 1,843 points · 2025
  2. OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us 1,361 points · 2025
  3. DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL 1,351 points · 2025
  4. DeepSeek OCR 1,003 points · 2025

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