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How “flash” trended on Hacker News

“Flash” was mentioned 102,669 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Apr 2010 with 1,357 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.

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 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed 1,098 points · 579 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Gemini 2.5 Flash Image 1,093 points · 475 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Gemini 2.5 Flash 1,076 points · 560 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Thoughts on Flash 962 points · 505 comments · 2010 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default 931 points · 377 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020 906 points · 501 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era 896 points · 426 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive 788 points · 254 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
11. 11.iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch 638 points · 436 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
12. 12.9 year old's DIY Cardboard Arcade gets Flash mobbed: Video 603 points · 131 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN

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