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How “elon musk” trended on Hacker News

“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.

Total mentions
43,917
Peak month
Oct 2022 (1,851)
First seen
2007
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What the chart shows

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.

Top Hacker News stories about “elon musk”

  1. 1.Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private 2,747 points · 3,078 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf] 1,462 points · 1,208 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook 1,390 points · 502 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.Elon Musk: To the People of New Jersey 1,265 points · 400 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Elon Musk on How to Build the Future 1,106 points · 513 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.OpenAI and Elon Musk 1,037 points · 977 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far 898 points · 1,796 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors 843 points · 1,417 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges 684 points · 465 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity 640 points · 430 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk 614 points · 1,784 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit 582 points · 640 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN

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