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cursor vs claude code vs codex on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, claude code leads cursor vs claude code vs codex with 37,988 mentions to cursor’s 34,974, peaking in Feb 2026.

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

cursor34,974 mentions, peak Apr 2025claude code37,988 mentions, peak Feb 2026codex12,689 mentions, peak Apr 2026
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How the lead changed hands

The AI-coding-tool relay: Cursor is the editor everyone talks about in late-2024, Claude Code spikes hard across mid-2025, then OpenAI's Codex takes its turn into early-2026.

The stories behind each line

Top “cursor” stories
  1. Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations 1,511 points · 2025
  2. Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly? 1,188 points · 2019
  3. We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack 1,154 points · 2025
  4. Quick tip for developers who use OS X 1,145 points · 2014
Top “claude code” stories
  1. Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code 2,127 points · 2025
  2. Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver 929 points · 2025
  3. Claude Code is all you need 851 points · 2025
  4. Claude Code 2.0 842 points · 2025
Top “codex” stories
  1. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI 587 points · 2025
  2. GPT-5.2-Codex 583 points · 2025
  3. OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal 516 points · 2025
  4. A Research Preview of Codex 511 points · 2025

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