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How Log4j trended on Hacker News

Log4j was mentioned 2,226 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Dec 2021 with 984 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Log4j 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 Log4j

1. 1.Log4j RCE Found 1,385 points · 503 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published 698 points · 278 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
3. 3.Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place 553 points · 393 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Third High Severity CVE in Log4j Is Published 432 points · 312 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Apache Log4j bug: China’s industry ministry pulls support from Alibaba Cloud 316 points · 189 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Log4Shell Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) – cheat-sheet reference guide 303 points · 195 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Log4j 2.15.0 – Previously suggested mitigations may not be enough 271 points · 98 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Log4j: The pain just keeps going 259 points · 288 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker 255 points · 37 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Log4j 2.16: Certain strings can cause infinite recursion 226 points · 173 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.GitHub taking down tools allowing defenders to reproduce the Log4j vulnerability 212 points · 94 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Widespread exploitation of critical remote code execution in Apache Log4j 197 points · 91 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN

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