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How “lk-99” trended on Hacker News

“Lk-99” was mentioned 1,004 times on Hacker News between 2021 and 2026, peaking in Jul 2023 with 851 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “lk-99” 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 “lk-99”

1. 1.Compilation of Known LK-99 Replication Attempt Claims 76 points · 12 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Researchers say they’ve replicated LK-99 room temperature superconductor 65 points · 27 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.First claimed successful replication of LK-99 superconductivity (includes video) 33 points · 10 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples 29 points · 6 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Electronic Structure of LK-99 25 points · 8 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99 22 points · 4 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99 21 points · 4 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
8. 8.First independent measurement of zero resistance in LK-99 17 points · 1 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
9. 9.LK-99 crystal verified to be magnetically levitated (with video) 15 points · 4 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
10. 10.LK-99 saga continues: Chinese labs report replication at -23°C 12 points · 3 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Four Korean universities evaluated LK-99: “Unable to discover superconductivity” 9 points · 0 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
12. 12.LK-99 7 points · 0 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN

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