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How “risc-v” trended on Hacker News

“Risc-v” was mentioned 25,092 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2023 with 596 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “risc-v” 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 “risc-v”

1. 1.NASA selects SiFive and makes RISC-V the go-to ecosystem for future missions 792 points · 187 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
2. 2.BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux 619 points · 305 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.A new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing 553 points · 162 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V 466 points · 97 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.India's first RISC-V based Chip is Here: Linux boots on Shakti processor 452 points · 88 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor 429 points · 233 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat 428 points · 98 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.MIPS Becomes RISC-V 424 points · 214 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.RISC-V is succeeding 413 points · 299 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V 401 points · 305 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Easy RISC-V 401 points · 80 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears 379 points · 269 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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