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“Crowdstrike” was mentioned 4,171 times on Hacker News between 2012 and 2026, peaking in Jul 2024 with 2,543 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “crowdstrike” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
CrowdStrike was a low-volume term from 2012 onward until a single event dominated its history. Mentions peak in July 2024 with 2,543, driven by the global Windows bluescreen-and-boot-loop outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update, with the top thread alone scoring 4,489 points. The lifetime total is 4,171 mentions.
Nearly all the top stories cluster around that outage: technical post-mortems of the CSAgent.sys crash, reports that quality control was lacking, and the company’s DMCA dispute with a parody site. After the incident, attention faded, leaving July 2024 as a clear isolated spike.
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