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How “html5” trended on Hacker News

“Html5” was mentioned 37,017 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2013 with 570 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “html5” 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 “html5”

1. 1.Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game 1,535 points · 304 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5 1,394 points · 201 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
3. 3.YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video 1,035 points · 393 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others 935 points · 234 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM 904 points · 357 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: A guide to all HTML5 elements and attributes 728 points · 93 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
7. 7.HTML5 Version of the Tron:Legacy Boardroom Scene 701 points · 66 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
8. 8.I took "abusing the HTML5 History" to the next level. 681 points · 62 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
9. 9.HTML5 Genetic Cars 664 points · 169 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam 637 points · 201 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire 631 points · 180 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript 622 points · 208 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN

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