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How Systemd trended on Hacker News

Systemd was mentioned 32,885 times on Hacker News between 2010 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2026 with 691 that month.

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

1. 1.Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units 546 points · 204 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Systemd by Example 496 points · 69 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced 466 points · 856 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024) 436 points · 371 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.System Down: A systemd-journald exploit 385 points · 344 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retrospective 381 points · 432 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
7. 7.“Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google.com” 369 points · 342 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Systemd: The Good Parts 364 points · 392 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Systemd v228 local root exploit 330 points · 152 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Debian votes for Proposal B, “Systemd but we support exploring alternatives” 319 points · 247 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Linux distros without systemd 318 points · 435 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd 298 points · 68 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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