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Hacker News Trends – September 2026

In September 2026, Birbla tracked 500 high-signal Hacker News stories. openai.com led publishers with 12 stories, while AI was the most-discussed topic (189 stories). Fastest-rising title keywords: astra (12), problem (5), fable (5). Figures below are computed from Birbla’s StoryCache — original stats you can cite.

Top domains

DomainStories
openai.com12
github.com11
nytimes.com9
reddit.com8
reuters.com7
science.org6
twitter.com6
grapheneos.social5
anthropic.com5
bbc.com5
apple.com5
arxiv.org5
bloomberg.com4
economist.com4
blog.google3

Most-discussed topics

TopicStoriesvs prior month
AI189+20
Open Source56-9
Programming33-3
Google31+5
Apple29+1
Automation22+8
LLM22+2
Startups17-7
Hardware13+2
Rust11+7

Fastest-rising keywords

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

astra (12, new)problem (5, new)fable (5, new)navier (4, new)stokes (4, new)since (4, new)suspended (4, new)hackers (4, new)human (4, new)engine (4, new)design (4, new)return (3, new)training (3, new)pirate (3, new)driver (3, new)architecture (3, new)image (3, new)changing (3, new)neural (3, new)features (3, new)

Average score by topic

TopicAvg scoreStories
Privacy3695
Google36031
Rust33211
DevOps3225
Programming32033
AI316189
Crypto3165
Hardware29213
Space2788
Automation27722

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