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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 (179 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
openai.com4
theguardian.com4
arxiv.org4
huggingface.co3
quantamagazine.org3
arstechnica.com3
science.org3
youtube.com3
wsj.com3
bbc.com3
spectrum.ieee.org3
en.wikipedia.org3

Most-discussed topics

TopicStoriesvs prior month
AI179+7
Open Source76-1
Google29+11
Programming28+4
Startups27+7
Security23+6
Automation23+7
Apple23-6
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
Security48623
Privacy4869
Startups44227
Google44029
Robotics4246
AI420179
Programming40728
Rust4027
Automation37823
Databases37411

Notable launches

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