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How Openbsd trended on Hacker News

Openbsd was mentioned 21,710 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Apr 2014 with 359 that month.

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

1. 1.OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on 825 points · 407 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
2. 2.John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code 744 points · 257 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Show HN: Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux 571 points · 128 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.OpenBSD Innovations 542 points · 323 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password 498 points · 96 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
6. 6.OpenBSD disables Intel's hyperthreading due to security concerns 478 points · 145 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
7. 7.We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus 420 points · 87 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
8. 8.WireGuard Merged into OpenBSD 410 points · 97 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels on Each Reboot 409 points · 111 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD 402 points · 84 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
11. 11.OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems 402 points · 114 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Allegations of FBI crypto backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC 395 points · 139 comments · 2010 · discuss on HN

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