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How “nicotine” trended on Hacker News

“Nicotine” was mentioned 8,202 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Aug 2019 with 303 that month.

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

1. 1.Nicotine Normalizes Brain Activity Deficits That Are Key to Schizophrenia 241 points · 236 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Ask HN: How Many of You Are Like Me? 156 points · 133 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Nicotine as a useful stimulant 155 points · 130 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
4. 4.U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy 155 points · 341 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
5. 5.FDA announces comprehensive plan for tobacco and nicotine regulation 68 points · 86 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Addicted to vaped nicotine, teenagers have no clear path to quitting 57 points · 104 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
7. 7.What nicotine does to your brain 52 points · 93 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.A nicotinic hypothesis for Covid-19 with preventive and therapeutic implications 46 points · 64 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Another French Study Looks Into The Use of Nicotine Against Covid-19 45 points · 54 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896) 45 points · 11 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Users Sue Juul for Addicting Them to Nicotine 44 points · 53 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
12. 12.The New Era of Nicotine 44 points · 45 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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