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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 26 stories, while AI was the most-discussed topic (171 stories). Fastest-rising title keywords: astra (11), fable (5), european (5). Figures below are computed from Birbla’s StoryCache — original stats you can cite.

Top domains

DomainStories
github.com26
theguardian.com10
arstechnica.com8
youtube.com7
nytimes.com6
openai.com5
twitter.com5
reuters.com5
arxiv.org5
bbc.com5
economist.com5
ft.com4
anthropic.com3
anildash.com3
electrek.co3

Most-discussed topics

TopicStoriesvs prior month
AI171-3
Open Source67-3
Google29+1
Programming24-12
Automation21+8
Startups21-3
LLM18-3
Apple18-9
Launches16+3
Security15+6

Fastest-rising keywords

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

astra (11, new)fable (5, new)european (5, new)limit (5, new)human (4, new)aerospace (4, new)tesla (4, new)selling (4, new)three (4, new)engineers (4, new)inside (4, new)major (4, new)board (3, new)street (3, new)fermat (3, new)third (3, new)makes (3, new)official (3, new)companies (3, new)schools (3, new)

Average score by topic

TopicAvg scoreStories
Programming9324
Automation8721
Google8529
Open Source8367
AI80171
Startups6721
Career6310
LLM5518
Apple5518
Python543

Notable launches

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