Hacker Trends › “leetcode” trend

How “leetcode” trended on Hacker News

“Leetcode” was mentioned 14,081 times on Hacker News between 2009 and 2026, peaking in Dec 2021 with 685 that month.

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

1. 1.Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems 679 points · 533 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Thank HN: Five months ago, I was feeling like a loser, now I am opposite 564 points · 213 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews 468 points · 603 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode 455 points · 204 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer 408 points · 457 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Ask HN: Got a CS degree, but I’m unable to be programmer. What can I do? 294 points · 315 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Ask HN: Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources? 294 points · 111 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
8. 8.I got asked LeetCode questions for a dev-ops systems engineering job today 292 points · 481 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’ 291 points · 478 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling 279 points · 50 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Ask HN: How do you take care of yourself? 265 points · 134 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Rant HN: I hate hackerrank 239 points · 150 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

More to explore

Compare “leetcode” with anything else on the main chart, or see how Hacker Trends works.