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How Sublime trended on Hacker News

Sublime was mentioned 19,269 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Sep 2017 with 355 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Sublime appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Total mentions
19,269
Peak month
Sep 2017 (355)
First seen
2007
2008201120142017202020232026
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Top Hacker News stories about Sublime

  1. 1.Sublime Text 3.0 1,653 points · 675 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
  2. 2.Sublime Text 4 1,436 points · 632 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
  3. 3.I still like Sublime Text 1,184 points · 602 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
  4. 4.Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text 935 points · 351 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
  5. 5.Sublime Text 2.0 Released 813 points · 352 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
  6. 6.Sublime Text 3 Beta 589 points · 360 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
  7. 7.Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone 547 points · 247 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
  8. 8.Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists 452 points · 164 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
  9. 9.Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone 442 points · 244 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
  10. 10.Firefox Developer Tools – Editable box model, Sublime Text keys 420 points · 114 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
  11. 11.Disassembling Sublime Text 419 points · 144 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
  12. 12.Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? 382 points · 489 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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