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How “cursor” trended on Hacker News

“Cursor” was mentioned 34,974 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Apr 2025 with 1,359 that month.

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

1. 1.Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations 1,511 points · 606 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly? 1,188 points · 196 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
3. 3.We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack 1,154 points · 431 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Quick tip for developers who use OS X 1,145 points · 395 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Cursors 1,032 points · 236 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Void: Open-source Cursor alternative 948 points · 343 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal 946 points · 726 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering 899 points · 760 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it 658 points · 399 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.90s Cursor Effects 620 points · 170 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code 616 points · 217 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Cursor 1.0 613 points · 468 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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