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How “rust rewrite” trended on Hacker News

“Rust rewrite” was mentioned 7,532 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2025 with 178 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “rust rewrite” 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 rewrite”

1. 1.Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust 635 points · 377 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils 548 points · 487 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Show HN: Rust Web Framework 488 points · 258 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust 464 points · 268 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
5. 5.How to not rewrite it in Rust 452 points · 224 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust 373 points · 232 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Rewriting m4vgalib in Rust 372 points · 44 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Rewriting Rust 368 points · 400 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Taming Go’s memory usage, or how we avoided rewriting our client in Rust 359 points · 219 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils 302 points · 305 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Cross-platform Rust Rewrite of the GNU Coreutils 299 points · 208 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Rewrite Everything in Rust 297 points · 231 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN

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