Hacker Trends › “chatgpt” trend
“Chatgpt” was mentioned 109,979 times on Hacker News between 2022 and 2026, peaking in Mar 2023 with 7,776 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “chatgpt” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
ChatGPT first showed up on Hacker News in 2022, the year of its launch, and mentions climbed sharply. The curve peaks in March 2023 with 7,776 mentions, during the early wave of public adoption, and the lifetime total reaches 109,979 mentions — among the highest in this set.
Discussion spans product features (ChatGPT Search, Canvas) and controversies, including a court order over retaining deleted chat logs and threads on the model confidently inventing features that don’t exist. Activity stayed high through 2026, making it one of the most persistently discussed terms on the site.
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