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How Steam trended on Hacker News

Steam was mentioned 75,797 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2025 with 1,750 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Steam 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 Steam

1. 1.Steam Machine 2,928 points · 1,514 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Valve Steam Deck 2,517 points · 1,609 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Steam Frame 1,915 points · 698 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam 1,581 points · 356 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released 1,157 points · 279 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 963 points · 640 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux 938 points · 544 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux 932 points · 311 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port 885 points · 262 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Helping Valve to power up Steam devices 859 points · 315 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark 832 points · 536 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics 815 points · 323 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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