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How “zirp” trended on Hacker News

“Zirp” was mentioned 2,041 times on Hacker News between 2012 and 2026, peaking in May 2025 with 83 that month.

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

1. 1.Ask HN: Why Isn't Elixir More Popular? 87 points · 89 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
2. 2.The Stock Market Is Selling the Fed's Independence Because ZIRP Broke the World 73 points · 61 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.What is ZIRP, and how did it impact the startup world? [video] 57 points · 39 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Tell HN: An ode to the lost magic of the 2010s ZIRP startups 22 points · 3 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.ZIRP Explains the World (2020) 10 points · 3 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
6. 6.The microservices craze was perhaps the purest example of a ZIRP 8 points · 30 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Is Brex the New WeWork? 7 points · 0 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Entering Technical Debt's ZIRP Era 3 points · 0 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.How the Fed's ZIRP, Silicon Valley and Libertarians Paved the Way for Autocracy 3 points · 1 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Dev jobs up 10% YoY while other jobs down 5.8%. What do you see on the ground? 3 points · 0 comments · 2026 · discuss on HN
11. 11.The United States’ Financial Quandary: ZIRP’s Only Exit Path Is a Crash 2 points · 0 comments · 2023 · discuss on HN
12. 12.What the end of ZIRP means for tech managers and leads 2 points · 1 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN

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