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How Steam deck trended on Hacker News

Steam deck was mentioned 7,014 times on Hacker News between 2009 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2025 with 329 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Steam deck 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 Steam deck

1. 1.Valve Steam Deck 2,517 points · 1,609 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version 626 points · 449 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers 617 points · 332 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Bento: A Steam Deck in a Keyboard 334 points · 96 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck 333 points · 316 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Inside the Steam Deck's APU 321 points · 227 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
7. 7.CAD files for the external shell (surface topology) of Steam Deck 317 points · 130 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
8. 8.The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly 305 points · 262 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games 298 points · 15 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Show HN: Play the game I'm developing directly on its website 276 points · 90 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Nintendo is removing switch emulation videos on Steam Deck from YouTube 273 points · 286 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player 238 points · 96 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN

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