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How “claude” trended on Hacker News

“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.

Total mentions
76,349
Peak month
Feb 2026 (9,935)
First seen
2007
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What the chart shows

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.

Top Hacker News stories about “claude

  1. 1.Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code 2,127 points · 963 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Claude 4 2,013 points · 1,170 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Claude Sonnet 4.5 1,585 points · 786 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku 1,454 points · 735 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context 1,324 points · 692 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Claude can now search the web 1,233 points · 726 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Claude Opus 4.5 1,113 points · 506 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Claude 3 model family 1,016 points · 683 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver 929 points · 318 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts 889 points · 530 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.Claude Code is all you need 851 points · 504 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Claude Code 2.0 842 points · 413 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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