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How “speedrun” trended on Hacker News

“Speedrun” was mentioned 2,287 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2025 with 100 that month.

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

1. 1.Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 Minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video] 633 points · 128 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Wikipedia Speedruns 318 points · 97 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Discoveries Ten Years Later in Zelda Speedrun 306 points · 85 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? 292 points · 300 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal 271 points · 156 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Speedrunning Windows 95 241 points · 89 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Planning a Morrowind all-faction speedrun with simulated annealing, part 2 232 points · 36 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Show HN: CSS Speedrun – A small game to test and improve your CSS knowledge 213 points · 64 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.The JJ VCS workshop: A zero-to-hero speedrun 178 points · 39 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Zero-knowledge proofs, encoding Sudoku and Mario speedruns without semantic leak 160 points · 25 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: Tool-Assisted Speedrunning the Boring Parts of Animal Crossing (GCN) 159 points · 21 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Kilo Code: Speedrunning open source coding AI 98 points · 52 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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