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How “gdpr” trended on Hacker News

“Gdpr” was mentioned 45,013 times on Hacker News between 2013 and 2026, peaking in May 2018 with 3,374 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “gdpr” 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 “gdpr”

1. 1.Google’s GDPR Workaround 1,868 points · 588 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws 975 points · 1,168 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.GDPR: Don't Panic 863 points · 800 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
4. 4.GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers 755 points · 1,467 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
5. 5.StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations 724 points · 1,123 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Romania orders investigative journalists to disclose sources under GDPR 723 points · 190 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything? 710 points · 346 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change 681 points · 485 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
9. 9.GDPR will pop the adtech bubble 668 points · 437 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? 668 points · 338 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked 651 points · 446 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is 607 points · 454 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN

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