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How “x86” trended on Hacker News

“X86” was mentioned 58,670 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2020 with 1,390 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “x86” 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 “x86”

1. 1.Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reproducible 778 points · 225 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript 765 points · 190 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Freedom and security issues on x86 platforms 713 points · 274 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model 604 points · 918 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language 591 points · 234 comments · 2016 · discuss on HN
6. 6.BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code 588 points · 121 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal 542 points · 251 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
8. 8.x86 Bare Metal Examples 513 points · 55 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go 498 points · 127 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly? 492 points · 109 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust 486 points · 232 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
12. 12.SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics 469 points · 179 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN

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