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How Nostr trended on Hacker News

Nostr was mentioned 2,354 times on Hacker News between 2016 and 2026, peaking in Sep 2025 with 184 that month.

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

1. 1.Nostr 393 points · 332 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Nostr is an inclusive communication commons 209 points · 188 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr 202 points · 169 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Nostr and ATProto (2024) 132 points · 72 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter 110 points · 138 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr 101 points · 35 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Gitstr: Send and receive Git patches over Nostr 90 points · 59 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Show HN: Oracolo – A minimalist Nostr blog in a single HTML file 90 points · 27 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
9. 9.ActivityPub/Nostr/At-Bluesky Compared 79 points · 75 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Gitworkshop.dev – Collaborate on code over Nostr 61 points · 9 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Nostr vs. Fediverse vs. Bluesky: A Comparison of Decentralized Social Protocols 54 points · 0 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN
12. 12.NIP-05 maps Nostr public keys to human-readable internet identifiers 53 points · 0 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN

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