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How “open core” trended on Hacker News

“Open core” was mentioned 27,406 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2026 with 437 that month.

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

1. 1.Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? 1,374 points · 1,145 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting 848 points · 234 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city 768 points · 372 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker 676 points · 215 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.I accidentally started a movement – Policing the Police by scraping court data 650 points · 183 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
6. 6.ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress 588 points · 337 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets 580 points · 107 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth' 545 points · 339 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product 464 points · 144 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
10. 10.NSA Deletes “Honesty” and “Openness” from Core Values 462 points · 152 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: InvokeAI, an open source Stable Diffusion toolkit and WebUI 414 points · 102 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase? 407 points · 238 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN

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