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How “backbone” trended on Hacker News

“Backbone” was mentioned 21,270 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Mar 2013 with 357 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “backbone” 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 “backbone”

1. 1.EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional 808 points · 169 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Launch HN: Necto (YC W18) – ISP Starter Kit 404 points · 78 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Announcing Backbone.js 1.0 396 points · 64 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Step by step from jQuery to Backbone 353 points · 75 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation 314 points · 114 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.React vs. Backbone in 2025 305 points · 231 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.EFF Asks Judge to Rule NSA Internet Backbone Spying Techniques Unconstitutional 292 points · 104 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Backbone.js Fundamentals 287 points · 39 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Step by step from jQuery to Backbone 282 points · 47 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Backbone UI 270 points · 65 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Backbone.js Fundamentals 258 points · 72 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Hello Backbone.js - A step-by-step tutorial 245 points · 47 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN

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