Hacker Trends › “grok” trend
“Grok” was mentioned 20,437 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2026 with 838 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “grok” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
Mentions of grok span back to 2007, partly from unrelated programming usage, but recent volume reflects xAI’s assistant. The curve peaks in January 2026 with 838 mentions, and the lifetime total is 20,437 mentions.
On-topic threads track the product line — the initial Grok release, Grok 4, and Grok Code Fast 1 — plus discussion of its behavior when queried about politically charged topics on X. The term remained active into 2026.
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