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Hacker Trends elden ring” trend

How “elden ring” trended on Hacker News

“Elden ring” was mentioned 1,045 times on Hacker News between 2019 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2022 with 161 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “elden ring” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
1,045
Peak month
Feb 2022 (161)
First seen
2019
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What the chart shows

Elden Ring first appears in 2019 around its announcement, and mentions peak in February 2022 with 161, the month the game released. The lifetime total is a modest 1,045 mentions, concentrated almost entirely in that launch window.

Discussion was design- and craft-focused for a games topic: pieces on how it ignored two decades of open-world convention, a technical “Behind the Pretty Frames” breakdown, and a note on its anti-piracy SEO tactics. Mentions faded quickly after early 2022.

Top Hacker News stories about “elden ring

  1. 1.The Boschian Horror of ‘Elden Ring’ 277 points · 242 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World Design 180 points · 160 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Behind the Pretty Frames: Elden Ring 116 points · 114 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.Elden Ring figured out the anti-piracy SEO game 86 points · 51 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Is Elden Ring that hard? Well, it depends what you mean by “hard” 57 points · 126 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.'Black Myth: Wukong' Blows Past Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077 Steam Records 34 points · 7 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Sony in talks to buy owner Of Elden Ring developer FromSoftware 16 points · 0 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Yes, ‘Elden Ring’ Is Perfectly Playable on Linux (Including Online Features) 13 points · 2 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.New RCE found for Dark Souls 3 12 points · 1 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Streamer Beats Elden Ring with Neural Interface, No Controller 12 points · 3 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.Elden Ring Is Incredible If You Have a Spare 100 Hours 10 points · 2 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Beautiful, brutal 'Elden Ring' delights with its deadly world 6 points · 2 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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