Hacker Trends › Recession trend
Recession was mentioned 29,719 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Mar 2020 with 807 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Recession appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
Recession has appeared on Hacker News since 2007 and totals 29,151 lifetime mentions, rising with economic anxiety. The curve peaks in March 2020 with 807 mentions, at the onset of the pandemic-driven downturn.
On-topic discussion includes a thread on the U.S. economy shrinking and signaling a recession, a canceled job interview blamed on a looming downturn, and commentary on how remote work and recession might reshape employment. The term remained active through 2026.
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