Hacker Trends › “claude” trend
“Claude” was mentioned 76,349 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2026 with 9,935 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “claude” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
Mentions matching claude go back to 2007, but volume is dominated by Anthropic’s model and tooling releases. The curve peaks in February 2026 with 9,935 mentions — its most recent and largest month — and the lifetime total is 76,349 mentions.
Top threads track the product line: Claude 3.7 Sonnet with Claude Code, Claude 4, Sonnet 4.5, computer use, 1M-token context, and web search. The term was at its peak right at the end of the observed window in 2026, indicating still-rising attention.
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