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How Microsoft trended on Hacker News

Microsoft was mentioned 403,779 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2023 with 4,009 that month.

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

1. 1.Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub 2,873 points · 1,436 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform 2,376 points · 894 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard 2,051 points · 1,353 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B 2,049 points · 833 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Getting forked by Microsoft 1,865 points · 998 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows 1,793 points · 765 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor 1,608 points · 543 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Microsoft Coffee 1,558 points · 371 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 1,468 points · 1,121 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 1,436 points · 478 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler 1,374 points · 446 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft 1,337 points · 799 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN

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