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How “ai winter” trended on Hacker News

“Ai winter” was mentioned 2,778 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Mar 2023 with 96 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “ai winter” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “ai winter”

1. 1.AI winter is well on its way 993 points · 492 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Ask HN: Will there ever be a resurgence of interest in symbolic AI? 225 points · 95 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
3. 3.A new AI winter is coming? 199 points · 280 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Ask HN: Good Sites for/with AI Enthusiasts? 126 points · 56 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Researchers: Are we on the cusp of an ‘AI winter’? 110 points · 117 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM 105 points · 68 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.The end of AI winter? 83 points · 66 comments · 2009 · discuss on HN
8. 8.YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in an AI bubble 71 points · 65 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
9. 9.AI Winter Is Coming 67 points · 56 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Launch HN: Deepgram (YC W16) – Scalable Speech API for Businesses 56 points · 23 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Ask HN: CS Researchers, why did you choose your subfield and niche? 56 points · 21 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
12. 12.AI Winter 55 points · 41 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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