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How Alexa trended on Hacker News

Alexa was mentioned 16,870 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2022 with 451 that month.

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

1. 1.The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available 957 points · 666 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.We will be retiring Alexa.com 667 points · 241 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child 644 points · 534 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person 498 points · 412 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions 476 points · 842 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud 457 points · 132 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls 367 points · 204 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Reviews Audio 333 points · 205 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year 330 points · 360 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand 287 points · 195 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Alexa: Amazon's Operating System 278 points · 168 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN
12. 12.TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’ 259 points · 232 comments · 2017 · discuss on HN

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