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How “john carmack” trended on Hacker News

“John carmack” was mentioned 4,720 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2022 with 86 that month.

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

1. 1.John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence 1,574 points · 890 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
2. 2.John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories 1,075 points · 366 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
3. 3.John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO 993 points · 204 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
4. 4.John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset 817 points · 304 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
5. 5.John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code 744 points · 257 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
6. 6.John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] 741 points · 275 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game 716 points · 193 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Id Software founder John Carmack resigns 590 points · 99 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
9. 9.John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025 557 points · 360 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.John Carmack on inlined code (2014) 556 points · 389 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language 555 points · 346 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
12. 12.John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta 527 points · 646 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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