Hacker Trends › “sbf” trend
“Sbf” was mentioned 5,716 times on Hacker News between 2010 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2022 with 1,433 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “sbf” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
SBF — Sam Bankman-Fried — first registers in 2010 but became prominent only with FTX’s collapse. The curve peaks sharply in October 2022 with 1,433 mentions, as the exchange imploded, and the lifetime total is 5,716 mentions.
Top threads cover his arrest by Bahamian authorities, a secret “back door” to move billions off the books, his legal defense funding, and a since-deleted Sequoia profile calling him a future trillionaire. Discussion concentrated around the 2022–2023 collapse and trial.
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