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How Debian trended on Hacker News

Debian was mentioned 60,938 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jun 2023 with 801 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Debian 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 Debian

1. 1.Debian 13 “Trixie” 974 points · 407 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Debian bookworm live images now reproducible 766 points · 200 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Debian 9 Stretch released 595 points · 162 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Debian 10 “Buster” Released 584 points · 256 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Debian 11 579 points · 285 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Happy 20th birthday Debian 520 points · 88 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Debian Running on Rust Coreutils 492 points · 330 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Winding down my Debian involvement 469 points · 227 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
9. 9.“Packages should be reproducible” added to Debian Policy 431 points · 43 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released 428 points · 126 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything 418 points · 267 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG 402 points · 213 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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