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How Rust trended on Hacker News

Rust was mentioned 265,364 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2025 with 3,725 that month.

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

1. 1.Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust 1,582 points · 640 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years 1,484 points · 972 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
3. 3.A half-hour to learn Rust 1,444 points · 330 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Announcing Rust 1.0 1,363 points · 306 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
5. 5.CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust 1,340 points · 264 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL 1,323 points · 185 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
7. 7.A Sad Day for Rust 1,243 points · 991 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.I refuse to let Amazon define Rust 1,193 points · 338 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust 1,170 points · 476 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust 1,138 points · 422 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust 1,113 points · 417 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Async-await on stable Rust 1,102 points · 380 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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