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How “vim” trended on Hacker News

“Vim” was mentioned 72,882 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Jul 2023 with 921 that month.

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

1. 1.How to Exit Vim 1,111 points · 395 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim 775 points · 473 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
3. 3.How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim 703 points · 221 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster 667 points · 280 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Vim 8.0 released 661 points · 299 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Vim 8.0 is coming 649 points · 412 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Learn Vim Progressively 605 points · 113 comments · 2011 · discuss on HN
8. 8.A Vim Guide for Advanced Users 603 points · 172 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim 598 points · 61 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.History and Effective Use of Vim 593 points · 218 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Vim after 15 Years 590 points · 173 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Vim.wasm 576 points · 279 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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