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How Unreal trended on Hacker News

Unreal was mentioned 18,191 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Sep 2023 with 552 that month.

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

1. 1.Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza 1,752 points · 280 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
2. 2.A first look at Unreal Engine 5 1,734 points · 676 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free 1,128 points · 240 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
4. 4.The future of Unreal Tournament begins today 803 points · 141 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines 660 points · 237 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Mozilla and Epic Announce Unreal Engine for the Web 504 points · 214 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
7. 7.The Matrix Is Unreal 492 points · 226 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever 488 points · 116 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Unreal Tournament 2004 is back 474 points · 202 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Welcome to Unreal Engine 4 468 points · 163 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan 462 points · 96 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Unreal vs. Unity Opinion 425 points · 315 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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