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How Windsurf trended on Hacker News

Windsurf was mentioned 2,306 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Apr 2025 with 408 that month.

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

1. 1.OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google 1,055 points · 685 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth 672 points · 525 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B 667 points · 572 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf 502 points · 435 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? 316 points · 398 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf? 241 points · 223 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server 213 points · 32 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models 190 points · 62 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.ForeverVM: Run AI-generated code in stateful sandboxes that run forever 184 points · 52 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.What the Windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem 173 points · 49 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
11. 11.OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B 155 points · 2 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps? 139 points · 136 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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