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“Elizabeth holmes” was mentioned 1,888 times on Hacker News between 2013 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2022 with 107 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “elizabeth holmes” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
Elizabeth Holmes first appears in 2013, as Theranos drew scrutiny, and totals 1,888 lifetime mentions. The curve peaks in October 2022 with 107 mentions, around her sentencing, after the January 2022 guilty verdict drove the highest-scoring thread.
The discussion follows the legal arc: criminal charges against Holmes and Balwani, the guilty verdict, the 11-plus-year sentence, and reporting that she urged employees to hide lab equipment from inspectors. Mentions tapered after the case concluded.
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