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How “stable diffusion” trended on Hacker News

“Stable diffusion” was mentioned 9,026 times on Hacker News between 2009 and 2026, peaking in Aug 2022 with 1,249 that month.

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

1. 1.Stable Diffusion 2.0 1,320 points · 471 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU 1,007 points · 401 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Stable Diffusion 3 983 points · 693 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Stable Diffusion is a big deal 874 points · 473 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Stable Diffusion Public Release 770 points · 413 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device 749 points · 175 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac 727 points · 191 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.The Illustrated Stable Diffusion 629 points · 119 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Stable Diffusion animation 616 points · 96 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper 503 points · 94 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Stable Diffusion based image compression 498 points · 199 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch 481 points · 77 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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