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Nvidia from founding to now: its own record, public attention and milestones

Nvidia month by month, 7,794 Hacker News stories naming it, funding rounds, lawsuits and the IPO filing on one time axis, and which teams publish what.

Birth to now

Jan 2015 to Oct 2026

Attention counts stories whose title names it on Hacker News (query: Nvidia); a few early ones may use the word another way.

On Hacker News

most discussed

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock ↗28 Sep 2026 · 1,092 points · 459 comments · links to colo.to
Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust ↗16 Sep 2026 · 970 points · 404 comments · links to developer.nvidia.com
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B ↗27 Aug 2026 · 1,988 points · 924 comments · links to businessinsider.com
Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage ↗15 Jan 2026 · 773 points · 478 comments · links to culpium.com
Nvidia buys $5B in Intel ↗18 Sep 2025 · 1,018 points · 611 comments · links to tomshardware.com
Nvidia won, we all lost ↗4 Jul 2025 · 995 points · 571 comments · links to blog.sebin-nyshkim.net
NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules ↗17 Jul 2024 · 881 points · 254 comments · links to developer.nvidia.com
Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P ↗12 Apr 2024 · 829 points · 336 comments · links to github.com

Public discussion, not the company's words; threads with the most points that name it in the title.

Every figure on this page comes from a named document with the exact sentence it was taken from; open “Exact text in the source” under any line. People appear in public roles from the company's own filings and pages. Not investment advice.