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How Ubuntu trended on Hacker News

Ubuntu was mentioned 97,917 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Mar 2017 with 1,416 that month.

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

1. 1.Ubuntu on Windows 2,049 points · 901 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? 1,374 points · 1,145 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Ubuntu Edge 1,188 points · 378 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
4. 4.“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” 1,168 points · 455 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages 1,106 points · 523 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker 924 points · 263 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home 876 points · 278 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu 786 points · 227 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence 756 points · 457 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ubuntu for Android 698 points · 171 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Ubuntu's Bug #1 is fixed 690 points · 191 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Waydroid – Run Android containers on Ubuntu 684 points · 206 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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