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Hacker News Trends – May 2026

In May 2026, Birbla tracked 217 high-signal Hacker News stories (+180 vs the prior month). github.com led publishers with 24 stories, while AI was the most-discussed topic (73 stories). Fastest-rising title keywords: software (5), using (5), video (5). Figures below are computed from Birbla’s StoryCache — original stats you can cite.

Top domains

DomainStories
github.com24
twitter.com4
youtube.com3
reclaimthenet.org2
nytimes.com2
apnews.com2
blog.google2
anthropic.com2
grapheneos.social1
unix.foo1
jeffgeerling.com1
reuters.com1
gutenberg.org1
valhovey.github.io1
tanstack.com1

Most-discussed topics

TopicStoriesvs prior month
AI73+57
Open Source38+29
Programming16+13
Automation16+14
Google13+10
Startups12+10
Apple11+10
Hardware7+7
LLM6+5
Launches6+4

Fastest-rising keywords

Ranked by month-over-month growth in story titles (min 2 mentions).

software (5, new)using (5, new)video (5, new)there (4, new)google (4, new)computer (4, new)first (4, new)agent (8, was 1)local (3, new)cloudflare (3, new)workforce (3, new)linux (3, new)faster (3, new)please (3, new)desktop (3, new)learning (3, new)design (3, new)built (3, new)world (3, new)write (3, new)

Average score by topic

TopicAvg scoreStories
Security6385
Google55813
LLM5446
Startups50812
AI50673
Hardware5037
Programming46216
Python4623
Open Source44438
Career4295

Notable launches

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