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How “ram” trended on Hacker News

“Ram” was mentioned 124,807 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Mar 2026 with 2,030 that month.

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

1. 1.I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock 1,509 points · 356 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork 954 points · 366 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.How Naughty Dog Fit Crash Bandicoot into 2MB of RAM on the PS1 934 points · 247 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it 817 points · 178 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak 595 points · 329 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.The Myth of RAM (2014) 593 points · 277 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
7. 7.The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more 584 points · 275 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Dieter Rams designed products to last, is horrified how we throw things away 541 points · 302 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
9. 9.PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage 483 points · 383 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Upgrading the soldered-on RAM of a Dell XPS13 7390 laptop 479 points · 209 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer? 472 points · 495 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Examining a vintage RAM chip, I find a counterfeit with a different die inside 462 points · 137 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN

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