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How “sopa” trended on Hacker News

“Sopa” was mentioned 7,716 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Dec 2011 with 3,845 that month.

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

1. 1.Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day 1,742 points · 272 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
2. 2.GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day" 1,121 points · 244 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA 951 points · 192 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA 922 points · 150 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Stop SOPA, save the Internet 883 points · 131 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
6. 6.GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA 825 points · 59 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up 709 points · 172 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
8. 8.GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA 705 points · 38 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA 699 points · 41 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT 687 points · 111 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
11. 11.An Open Letter to HN from EFF, Demand Progress, and Cory Doctorow 681 points · 101 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA 645 points · 226 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN

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