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How Substack trended on Hacker News

Substack was mentioned 16,752 times on Hacker News between 2010 and 2026, peaking in Apr 2023 with 758 that month.

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

1. 1.Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not 647 points · 517 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor 642 points · 355 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking 536 points · 365 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company 523 points · 505 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k 519 points · 265 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown 441 points · 99 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure 381 points · 132 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA 374 points · 416 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months 228 points · 70 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ask HN: Is Substack the new Medium? 186 points · 166 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
11. 11.AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new business model for journalism 180 points · 153 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Sovereign writers and Substack 142 points · 156 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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