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How Passkey trended on Hacker News

Passkey was mentioned 10,218 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 are a trap 1,102 points · 569 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Passkeys: A shattered dream 969 points · 773 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.I don't like passkeys 852 points · 819 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Apple Passkey 817 points · 398 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Passkeys are not a trap 664 points · 809 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security 377 points · 361 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.The cryptography behind passkeys 276 points · 263 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.CVE-2024-9956 – PassKey Account Takeover in All Mobile Browsers 243 points · 116 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Bringing passkeys to Android and Chrome 231 points · 258 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers 225 points · 274 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems 189 points · 212 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Passkeys and Modern Authentication 187 points · 204 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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