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How Freebsd trended on Hacker News

Freebsd was mentioned 32,068 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jul 2022 with 457 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Freebsd 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 Freebsd

1. 1.WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation 1,230 points · 204 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
2. 2.RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD 769 points · 363 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] 707 points · 292 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser 599 points · 174 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD 552 points · 196 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
6. 6.We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD 445 points · 398 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
7. 7.A Love Letter to FreeBSD 435 points · 316 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 and a Pentium 200MHZ 418 points · 161 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
9. 9.FreeBSD turns 21 412 points · 130 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ask HN: Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory? 408 points · 83 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again 399 points · 166 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.FreeBSD is an amazing operating system 395 points · 189 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN

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