Hacker Trends › “elon musk” trend
“Elon musk” was mentioned 43,917 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2022 with 1,851 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “elon musk” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
Elon Musk has been a Hacker News fixture since 2007, totaling 43,917 lifetime mentions. The curve peaks in October 2022 with 1,851 mentions, around his moves to take Twitter private, with the top thread covering his $43B unsolicited bid.
Coverage is wide-ranging across his ventures: deleting SpaceX and Tesla Facebook pages, his 2024 lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, and earlier essays like “How to Build the Future.” The term stayed consistently active through 2026.
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