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How “spectre” trended on Hacker News

“Spectre” was mentioned 7,091 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Dec 2017 with 1,130 that month.

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

1. 1.Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown 1,603 points · 215 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability 757 points · 315 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status 509 points · 174 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Linux Kernel Developer Criticizes Intel for Meltdown, Spectre Response 454 points · 145 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
5. 5.LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack 433 points · 242 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
6. 6.New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre defenses 417 points · 189 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance 405 points · 289 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit 397 points · 285 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
9. 9.A Spectre is Haunting Unicode 353 points · 110 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
10. 10.V8: A Year with Spectre 352 points · 212 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Meltdown and Spectre 347 points · 141 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
12. 12.A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode 323 points · 130 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN

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