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How “neuralink” trended on Hacker News

“Neuralink” was mentioned 2,576 times on Hacker News between 2017 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2022 with 171 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “neuralink” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
2,576
Peak month
Nov 2022 (171)
First seen
2017
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What the chart shows

Neuralink first appears in 2017, around its public unveiling, and totals 2,576 lifetime mentions. The curve peaks in November 2022 with 171 mentions.

Top threads track the company’s milestones: early live-stream and progress-update events, the goal of boosting the brain to keep up with AI, a patient controlling games by thinking, and the first participant describing how his life changed. The term remained active through 2026.

Top Hacker News stories about “neuralink”

  1. 1.Neuralink Live Stream [video] 390 points · 287 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed 360 points · 446 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI 315 points · 272 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.Neuralink Progress Update [video] 281 points · 373 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed " 263 points · 214 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during interview 199 points · 144 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company 192 points · 294 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday 153 points · 157 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future 133 points · 25 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.15 of 23 Monkeys with Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chips Reportedly Died 120 points · 143 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.A skeptic’s take on Neuralink and other consumer neurotech 109 points · 158 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.FDA staff reviewing Musk's Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings 100 points · 22 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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