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How “richard stallman” trended on Hacker News

“Richard stallman” was mentioned 4,044 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Sep 2019 with 298 that month.

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

1. 1.Richard M. Stallman resigns 1,747 points · 2,180 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF 844 points · 856 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.In Defense of Richard Stallman 744 points · 607 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Richard Stallman Was Right All Along 731 points · 226 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him 511 points · 515 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman [pdf] 438 points · 84 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement 419 points · 596 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Richard Stallman Inducted Into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame 380 points · 158 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin 377 points · 423 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Richard Stallman’s rider 373 points · 280 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction 356 points · 391 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Richard Stallman: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents 355 points · 98 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN

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