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How “openai” trended on Hacker News

“Openai” was mentioned 91,677 times on Hacker News between 2015 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2023 with 5,674 that month.

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

Total mentions
91,677
Peak month
Nov 2023 (5,674)
First seen
2015
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What the chart shows

OpenAI first appears in 2015, the year it was founded, and totals 91,677 lifetime mentions — one of the largest in this set. The curve peaks in November 2023 with 5,674 mentions, the month of Sam Altman’s brief ousting and reinstatement.

Top threads span open-weights releases, the O3 ARC-AGI score, the Whisper speech-recognition release, the Scarlett Johansson “Sky” voice dispute, and Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the company. Discussion stayed heavily active through 2026.

Top Hacker News stories about “openai

  1. 1.Open models by OpenAI 2,124 points · 876 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees 1,791 points · 534 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB 1,724 points · 1,755 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI 1,705 points · 481 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice 1,528 points · 1,000 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf] 1,462 points · 1,208 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us 1,361 points · 16 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.OpenAI to become for-profit company 1,346 points · 745 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy 1,325 points · 737 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk? 1,254 points · 961 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.GPT-5.2 1,195 points · 1,081 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats 1,132 points · 932 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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