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How “passkey” trended on Hacker News

“Passkey” was mentioned 8,250 times on Hacker News between 2009 and 2026, peaking in Apr 2023 with 809 that month.

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

1. 1.Passkeys: A shattered dream 969 points · 773 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Apple Passkey 817 points · 398 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security 377 points · 361 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.The cryptography behind passkeys 276 points · 263 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.CVE-2024-9956 – PassKey Account Takeover in All Mobile Browsers 243 points · 116 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Bringing passkeys to Android and Chrome 231 points · 258 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
7. 7.FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers 225 points · 274 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems 189 points · 212 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Passkeys and Modern Authentication 187 points · 204 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Passkey Implementation: Misconceptions, pitfalls and unknown unknowns 184 points · 186 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot 170 points · 133 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Passkeys – Under the Hood 158 points · 103 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN

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