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How “heartbleed” trended on Hacker News

“Heartbleed” was mentioned 3,925 times on Hacker News between 2014 and 2026, peaking in Apr 2014 with 936 that month.

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

1. 1.The Heartbleed Bug 1,768 points · 528 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
2. 2.CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked 562 points · 142 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation 558 points · 75 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Heartbleed should bleed X.509 to death 401 points · 147 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
5. 5.What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing 362 points · 113 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
6. 6.NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years 323 points · 174 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when 307 points · 104 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Heartbleed 296 points · 158 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013? 290 points · 80 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
10. 10.NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (2014) 285 points · 133 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
11. 11.The Heartbleed Challenge 284 points · 118 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
12. 12.LastPass Now Checks If Your Sites Are Affected by Heartbleed 281 points · 91 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN

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