Hacker Trends › “room temperature superconductor” trend

How “room temperature superconductor” trended on Hacker News

“Room temperature superconductor” was mentioned 920 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jul 2023 with 414 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “room temperature superconductor” 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 “room temperature superconductor”

1. 1.Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor 66 points · 14 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Researchers say they’ve replicated LK-99 room temperature superconductor 65 points · 27 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments 62 points · 8 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Replicated by Two Independent Labs 55 points · 14 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
5. 5.The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors 50 points · 46 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Room-Temperature Superconductor Replicated 48 points · 50 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.New Video of Strong Full Levitation of Pcposos Room Temperature Superconductor 26 points · 11 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Navy Files for Patent on Room-Temperature Superconductor 18 points · 4 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Room Temperature Superconductor Paper Retracted by Journal Nature 16 points · 1 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Room-Temperature Superconductor Discovery Meets with Resistance 16 points · 7 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Scientists Discover New Path to Room-Temperature Superconductors 14 points · 2 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Is the latest near-room-temperature superconductor legit? 11 points · 4 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN

More to explore

Compare “room temperature superconductor” with anything else on the main chart, or see how Hacker Trends works.