Hacker Trends › “deepseek” trend
“Deepseek” was mentioned 10,115 times on Hacker News between 2023 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2025 with 3,512 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “deepseek” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
DeepSeek first appears in 2023 but was a minor presence until early 2025. The curve spikes hard in January 2025 with 3,512 mentions, coinciding with the release of DeepSeek-R1, and the lifetime total is 10,115 mentions — most of it concentrated in that single surge.
The conversation centered on R1’s reasoning approach and its open release, with threads on the reinforcement-learning paper, code performance, and competitive friction with OpenAI. Later 2025 releases like DeepSeek OCR and v3.2 kept the term active through 2026.
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