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How “cpu” trended on Hacker News

“Cpu” was mentioned 177,994 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2020 with 2,238 that month.

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

1. 1.24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse 1,011 points · 499 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model 1,003 points · 361 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork 954 points · 366 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering 899 points · 760 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
5. 5.If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right 895 points · 478 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
6. 6.1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video] 872 points · 154 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
7. 7.An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up 843 points · 445 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf] 817 points · 277 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
9. 9.New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects 747 points · 532 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday 735 points · 469 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.I made my VM think it has a CPU fan 679 points · 188 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.24-core CPU and I can’t type an email 629 points · 310 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN

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