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How “valve” trended on Hacker News

“Valve” was mentioned 29,731 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2025 with 1,033 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “valve” 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 “valve”

1. 1.Valve Steam Deck 2,517 points · 1,609 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code 1,863 points · 387 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm 978 points · 854 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games 948 points · 905 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 902 points · 486 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Helping Valve to power up Steam devices 859 points · 315 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux 819 points · 322 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux 796 points · 327 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Thank You, Valve 766 points · 445 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far 748 points · 312 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Valve is about to win the console generation 647 points · 537 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients by 3D printing valves 622 points · 195 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN

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