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How “minecraft” trended on Hacker News

“Minecraft” was mentioned 21,776 times on Hacker News between 2009 and 2026, peaking in Sep 2014 with 527 that month.

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

1. 1.CSS Minecraft 1,220 points · 140 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition 1,027 points · 464 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Making Minecraft Spherical 900 points · 123 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version 887 points · 351 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
5. 5.1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video] 872 points · 154 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft 831 points · 109 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Notch gives his $3,000,000 Minecraft dividend to his employees 694 points · 209 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Economics of Minecraft 642 points · 112 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died 606 points · 109 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders 578 points · 154 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
11. 11.The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft 567 points · 364 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Microsoft open sources parts of Minecraft: Java Edition 536 points · 137 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN

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