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How “gravitational waves” trended on Hacker News

“Gravitational waves” was mentioned 2,997 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2016 with 211 that month.

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

1. 1.Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right 2,011 points · 483 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Second Gravitational Wave Detected at LIGO 621 points · 174 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
3. 3.ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source 566 points · 146 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo 528 points · 154 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days? 456 points · 316 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Gravitational waves detected by LIGO 454 points · 97 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
7. 7.LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves for Third Time 341 points · 107 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting 258 points · 137 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery of gravitational waves 240 points · 41 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
10. 10.New ways to catch gravitational waves 233 points · 100 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Gravitational waves eject black hole from galaxy 209 points · 56 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
12. 12.LIGO Gravitational Wave Data in iPython Jupyter Notebooks 209 points · 32 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

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