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How Flash trended on Hacker News

Flash was mentioned 109,225 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1,632 that month.

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

Total mentions
109,225
Peak month
Aug 2026 (1,632)
First seen
2007
2008201120142017202020232026
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Top Hacker News stories about Flash

  1. 1.Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) 1,519 points · 996 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020” 1,213 points · 487 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber 1,160 points · 669 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed 1,098 points · 579 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Gemini 2.5 Flash Image 1,093 points · 475 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? 1,082 points · 952 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Gemini 2.5 Flash 1,076 points · 560 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.GLM-5.3-Flash 1,021 points · 513 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1,016 points · 574 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Thoughts on Flash 962 points · 505 comments · 2010 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default 931 points · 377 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s 922 points · 420 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN

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