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How Emacs trended on Hacker News

Emacs was mentioned 82,029 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2022 with 1,056 that month.

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

Total mentions
82,029
Peak month
Nov 2022 (1,056)
First seen
2007
2008201120142017202020232026
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Top Hacker News stories about Emacs

  1. 1.Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers 1,063 points · 303 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs 782 points · 266 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Buttery Smooth Emacs 651 points · 229 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.New GNU Emacs website 547 points · 229 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Making Emacs Popular Again 544 points · 761 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals 523 points · 179 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Emacs 26.2 Released 491 points · 265 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Emacs is special regarding UIs 477 points · 413 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL 465 points · 191 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing 454 points · 160 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists 452 points · 164 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla 429 points · 343 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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