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How Linux trended on Hacker News

Linux was mentioned 533,776 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2026 with 6,073 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Linux 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 Linux

1. 1.My Business Card Runs Linux 2,595 points · 397 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research 1,883 points · 8 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. 1,820 points · 239 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
4. 4.The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source 1,613 points · 1,194 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016) 1,423 points · 469 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Announcing SQL Server on Linux 1,344 points · 476 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux 1,292 points · 255 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf] 1,239 points · 269 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux 1,217 points · 760 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows 1,185 points · 283 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead 1,116 points · 997 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages 1,106 points · 523 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN

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