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Hacker News Trends – July 2026

In July 2026, Birbla tracked 500 high-signal Hacker News stories. github.com led publishers with 34 stories, while AI was the most-discussed topic (178 stories). Fastest-rising title keywords: companies (5), airport (4), conjecture (4). Figures below are computed from Birbla’s StoryCache — original stats you can cite.

Top domains

DomainStories
github.com34
twitter.com8
anthropic.com5
science.org5
openai.com4
theguardian.com4
arxiv.org4
spectrum.ieee.org4
huggingface.co3
quantamagazine.org3
arstechnica.com3
youtube.com3
wsj.com3
bbc.com3
en.wikipedia.org3

Most-discussed topics

TopicStoriesvs prior month
AI178+6
Open Source76-1
Google29+11
Programming28+4
Startups27+7
Automation23+7
Security22+5
Apple22-7
LLM20+2
Launches17+3

Fastest-rising keywords

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

companies (5, new)airport (4, new)conjecture (4, new)getting (4, new)private (4, new)frontier (4, new)content (4, new)incremental (4, new)security (7, was 1)wipes (3, new)chatgpt (3, new)jacobian (3, new)counterexample (3, new)chinese (3, new)device (3, new)technical (3, new)command (3, new)token (3, new)mathematics (3, new)engineers (3, new)

Average score by topic

TopicAvg scoreStories
Security50122
Privacy4869
Startups44227
Google44029
Robotics4246
AI422178
Programming40728
Rust4027
Automation37823
Databases37411

Notable launches

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Hacker News Trends – July 2026 · Birbla