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How “defi” trended on Hacker News

“Defi” was mentioned 12,893 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2022 with 376 that month.

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

1. 1.Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records 1,879 points · 506 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
2. 2.YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video 639 points · 370 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether 632 points · 595 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show 592 points · 250 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
5. 5.SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon 494 points · 547 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species 478 points · 158 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails to US Government 385 points · 117 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
8. 8.DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users 378 points · 375 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands 324 points · 82 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
10. 10.$600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date 324 points · 339 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls” 310 points · 342 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
12. 12.The math prodigy whose hack upended DeFi won’t return funds 293 points · 397 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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