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How “capacitor” trended on Hacker News

“Capacitor” was mentioned 9,043 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2024 with 146 that month.

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

1. 1.The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory 536 points · 259 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Two capacitor paradox 438 points · 169 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Proper decoupling capacitor practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind 226 points · 79 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Ask HN: Where did you learn modular electronics? 222 points · 67 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Let's Talk About Capacitor Failure 154 points · 109 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Capacitor plague 138 points · 62 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Capacitor, BigQuery’s next-generation columnar storage format 133 points · 14 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Capacitor: Cross-platform native runtime for web apps 116 points · 47 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.New capacitor with 19-times energy density 106 points · 58 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
10. 10.The marvelous disappearing capacitor 103 points · 13 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Capacitor: Universal Web Applications 100 points · 50 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Tell HN: Apple rejecting cross platform apps (React Native, Flutter, Capacitor) 90 points · 12 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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