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How Reddit trended on Hacker News

Reddit was mentioned 221,307 times on Hacker News between 2006 and 2026, peaking in Jun 2023 with 13,526 that month.

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

1. 1.Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News 1,831 points · 390 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations 1,511 points · 606 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app? 1,403 points · 644 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US 1,361 points · 584 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
5. 5.A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator 1,305 points · 931 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang 1,303 points · 417 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Reddit’s disrespectful design 1,278 points · 496 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation 1,175 points · 937 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting 1,099 points · 540 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine 1,095 points · 285 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes 1,072 points · 637 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Reddit 988 points · 394 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN

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