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How Whisper trended on Hacker News

Whisper was mentioned 10,894 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2023 with 268 that month.

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

1. 1.Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI 1,705 points · 481 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
2. 2.FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support 1,033 points · 325 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust 591 points · 152 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption 506 points · 147 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
5. 5.WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper 464 points · 114 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end Encryption for Allo 330 points · 212 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor 313 points · 272 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text 289 points · 75 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning 271 points · 189 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker 270 points · 180 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Show HN: I made an open source and local translation app 236 points · 56 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Show HN: I made a free transcription service powered by Whisper AI 223 points · 130 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN

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