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Hacker News Trends – October 2026

In October 2026, Birbla tracked 500 high-signal Hacker News stories. github.com led publishers with 27 stories, while AI was the most-discussed topic (164 stories). Fastest-rising title keywords: yandex (5), going (5), documents (5). Figures below are computed from Birbla’s StoryCache — original stats you can cite.

Top domains

DomainStories
github.com27
reuters.com10
nytimes.com7
theguardian.com6
ft.com6
reddit.com5
404media.co5
openai.com4
twitter.com4
anthropic.com4
youtube.com4
nature.com4
blog.cloudflare.com4
bloomberg.com3
cnbc.com3

Most-discussed topics

TopicStoriesvs prior month
AI164-25
Open Source72+16
Programming31-2
Google27-4
Apple20-9
Automation19-3
Startups170
Security15+4
LLM13-9
Launches12+4

Fastest-rising keywords

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

yandex (5, new)going (5, new)documents (5, new)based (5, new)hours (4, new)because (4, new)germany (4, new)audio (4, new)writing (4, new)program (8, was 1)progress (3, new)value (3, new)nobel (3, new)basic (3, new)memory (3, new)hidden (3, new)starlink (3, new)super (3, new)automatic (3, new)click (3, new)

Average score by topic

TopicAvg scoreStories
DevOps1903
Google18127
Startups16617
Crypto1593
Privacy1586
Security15415
AI153164
Launches15212
Remote Work1373
Open Source13372

Notable launches

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