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How Perplexity trended on Hacker News

Perplexity was mentioned 10,614 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Aug 2025 with 352 that month.

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

1. 1.Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives 1,315 points · 748 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone 669 points · 133 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent 626 points · 533 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Perplexica: Open-source Perplexity alternative 378 points · 83 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Perplexity Deep Research 368 points · 168 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser 314 points · 206 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet 291 points · 122 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon 272 points · 40 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Bloom Filters for the Perplexed 259 points · 45 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant 255 points · 196 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Perplexity got ads 237 points · 361 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations 199 points · 93 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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