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How “soft landing” trended on Hacker News

“Soft landing” was mentioned 1,724 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Dec 2023 with 45 that month.

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

1. 1.SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage 561 points · 189 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
2. 2.SpaceX Successfully Soft-Landed Booster Rocket in the Atlantic 306 points · 136 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing with SLIM spacecraft [video] 273 points · 98 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Silicon Valley's Soft Landing 124 points · 67 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Super Heavy landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico [video] 84 points · 26 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Thoughts on Acqui-hires & Soft Landings 68 points · 12 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Global Economy Approaches Soft Landing, but Risks Remain 64 points · 102 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Show HN: One Soft Landing – hire people that were recently laid off 57 points · 6 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing 47 points · 10 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ask HN: Are we still in a tech bubble? 30 points · 16 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Ask HN: I bought Polymail (YC S16), what should I do with it? 27 points · 9 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Ask HN: Talk me through the acquihire process 19 points · 30 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN

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