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Hacker News Trends – September 2026

In September 2026, Birbla tracked 500 high-signal Hacker News stories. github.com led publishers with 15 stories, while AI was the most-discussed topic (199 stories). Fastest-rising title keywords: astra (11), navier (7), stokes (7). Figures below are computed from Birbla’s StoryCache — original stats you can cite.

Top domains

DomainStories
github.com15
openai.com11
bbc.com7
twitter.com6
techcrunch.com6
anthropic.com5
apple.com5
nytimes.com5
grapheneos.social5
arxiv.org5
reuters.com5
science.org4
arstechnica.com4
blog.google3
mathstodon.xyz3

Most-discussed topics

TopicStoriesvs prior month
AI199+30
Open Source71+6
Google35+9
Programming30-6
Apple29+1
Automation23+9
LLM21+1
Startups20-4
Security15+7
Hardware13+2

Fastest-rising keywords

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

astra (11, new)navier (7, new)stokes (7, new)fable (6, new)engine (5, new)problem (4, new)suspended (4, new)pirate (4, new)human (4, new)limit (3, new)training (3, new)proof (3, new)since (3, new)hackers (3, new)reads (3, new)samsung (3, new)return (3, new)image (3, new)coming (3, new)features (3, new)

Average score by topic

TopicAvg scoreStories
Rust32211
DevOps3083
Privacy3035
Crypto3034
Databases2903
Programming27930
AI268199
Google26635
Hardware25413
Space2547

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