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How “signal” trended on Hacker News

“Signal” was mentioned 225,980 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2021 with 4,435 that month.

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

1. 1.Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) 2,439 points · 907 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms 1,457 points · 438 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames 1,422 points · 872 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Signal Foundation 1,314 points · 284 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California 1,286 points · 580 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention 1,224 points · 496 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal 1,171 points · 388 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice 1,149 points · 431 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Mystery signal from a helicopter 1,101 points · 78 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
10. 10.WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete 1,055 points · 376 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran 1,045 points · 183 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Signal Secure Backups 990 points · 442 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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