Weekly release
Posts published 13–19 Apr 2026 on Reddit, Bluesky, YouTube, Hacker News, arXiv, Google News and Exa, each measured on its own: 97 readings.
Published 2 Oct 2026. Its figures never change. Cite it with its permanent link. What these states mean
March eraRebuilt from archives, with live capture from 7 Mar to 31 May.
This release’s conditions
No prose is stored for this release.
The first place on each of the two platforms that count people, in its reading’s own words. Two platforms, two rankings; nothing here is added across them.
14,858 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 14,858 distinct people posted about Claude between 13 and 19 April 2026: 23,622 posts, an estimated 8.37% of that week's Reddit posts about AI, leaving out templated automated posts (99.8% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Reddit · posts from 13–19 Apr 2026 · n 23,622 posts · author coverage 99.8% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
52 distinct people on Hacker News
On Hacker News, 52 distinct people posted about Claude between 13 and 19 April 2026: 53 posts, 17.97% of that week's Hacker News posts about AI (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Hacker News · posts from 13–19 Apr 2026 · n 53 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Each card is the lead measured statement of one platform’s first place: the stored statement whose figures include that platform’s people count, shown verbatim. Platforms rank separately; a subject leading two platforms appears twice.
Every subject’s place on each platform that counts people, side by side. Read down a column for one platform’s ranking; read across a row to see how differently the platforms rank one subject.
| Rank | Subject · lineage | Reddit ▼ sortedn 282,352 postsbar: people, #1 = 14,858 | Hacker Newsn 295 postsbar: people, #1 = 52 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 14,858#1 | 52#1 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 5,830#2 | Hidden · n 6 people: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 3 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 3,463#3 | Hidden · n 5 people: n 5 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 4 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 3,235#4 | 24#2 |
| 5 | GPTOpenAI | 2,530#5 | Hidden · n 5 people: n 5 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 6 | QwenAlibaba | 2,370#6 | Hidden · n 5 people: n 5 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 7 | CodexOpenAI | 1,619#7 | Hidden · n 9 people: n 9 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 8 | GemmaGoogle DeepMind | 1,468#8 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | GrokxAI | 1,281#9 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 10 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 856#10 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 11 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 766#11 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 12 | GLMZhipu AI | 563#12 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | SoraOpenAI | 526#13 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | Claude CoworkAnthropic › Claude | 508#14 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 15 | LlamaMeta | 500#15 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Reddit · n 282,352 posts#1 = 14,858
People on Hacker News · n 295 posts#1 = 52
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 13–19 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; published. Each column is scaled to its own #1 and ranks on its own; nothing is added across platforms, because one person can post on several. Rows follow Reddit, the default platform. Hatched cells are hidden, never shown as a number. The stored reason, e.g. Hacker News ChatGPT: “n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 282,352 posts on Reddit and 295 on Hacker News.
Posts, no peoplearXiv, Google News and Exa are not ranked. Article sources have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Posts per subject, largest first:
arXiv n 422 posts · 85 subjects
GPT 14, Qwen 12, Gemini 9, Llama 7 posts, and 81 more subjects
Google News n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 13 and 19 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
Exa n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 13 and 19 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The same subjects one week later, on the platform with enough people. GPT grew on Reddit while Claude eased.
Reddit · people per subject
Distinct people per subject on each release’s board, for subjects with n ≥ 100 posts in both weeks (30 on Reddit), as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; published. Each panel on its own scale; lines join one subject’s two weeks. Each week’s n is its platform’s posts: Reddit n 282,352 and 289,735 posts. 2026-W16 and 2026-W17 follow on from each other, so their lines are joined.
When a post was written and when AIDRAN caught it are different days. For each platform, what was published each day against what was captured that day, and how much of the capture was catching up.What was published each day against what AIDRAN captured that day, and how much of it was catching up.
16 Apr: published 170,792 · captured 24,254
own scale, top = 170,792
15 Apr: published 7,387 · captured 7,276
own scale, top = 7,387
14 Apr: published 659 · captured 776
own scale, top = 776
16 Apr: published 166 · captured 30
own scale, top = 202
13 Apr: published 151 · captured 142 · late 142 · late heavy
own scale, top = 473
17 Apr: published 131 · captured 1,398 · late 1,268 · late heavy
own scale, top = 1,398
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 194
Per platform and day, 13–19 Apr 2026: posts published that day (published_n), posts captured that day whatever their publish date (captured_n), and the part of those captured late (late_captured_n), from conditions.coverage, computed 2 Oct 2026 07:23Z. Each platform on its own scale. A flag bar marks a partial, low-capture or late-heavy day. Not-started days show published only: those posts were captured later and do count.13–19 Apr 2026, from conditions.coverage, computed 2 Oct 2026 07:23Z. Each platform on its own scale; a flag bar marks a partial, low-capture or late-heavy day.
Families and their products on Reddit. A post about Claude Code usually also counts for Claude, so the bars sit together and are never summed.Families and their products on Reddit, side by side and never summed.
The family entry already includes its products; not added.
Gemini family · Google DeepMind
› Gemini API (Google AI Studio) 237 · Gemini CLI 88 · Gemini app 67
› Qwen Code 65
› Grok app 89
People on Reddit, 13–19 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 14,858). Groups follow each subject’s stored lineage.
Posts, threads and distinct people on each platform: the context for every share in this release. Each platform stands alone.The context for every share. Each platform stands alone.
| Platform | Posts | Threads | People | Author cov. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hidden | hidden | |||
| Bluesky | hidden | hidden | hidden | |
| YouTube | hidden | hidden | hidden | |
| Hacker News | 100.0% | |||
| arXiv | not applicable | 0.0% | ||
| Google News | hidden | hidden | not applicable | |
| Exa | hidden | hidden | not applicable |
13–19 Apr 2026 · as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z · counted from posts’ own data · no platform coverage-limited. People count distinct platform identities and are never added across platforms, so there is no total row. People are not applicable on article sources. Reddit’s posts include its comments. Each figure’s n 282,352 posts on Reddit, not recorded on Bluesky, not recorded on YouTube, 295 on Hacker News, 422 on arXiv, not recorded on Google News and not recorded on Exa.
Each subject against its previous stored reading under the same method, share and people, platform by platform. Each has its own page, for its size: one cell a subject and platform.
What AIDRAN was collecting on each platform, each day of the week. A day can hold posts even when collection hadn’t started: they were captured later.What AIDRAN was collecting on each platform, each day.
| Platform | Mon 13 | Tue 14 | Wed 15 | Thu 16 | Fri 17 | Sat 18 | Sun 19 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 13 Apr: backfilled | Tue 14 Apr: backfilled | Wed 15 Apr: backfilled | Thu 16 Apr: backfilled | Fri 17 Apr: backfilled | Sat 18 Apr: backfilled | Sun 19 Apr: backfilled | |
| Bluesky | Mon 13 Apr: earlier method | Tue 14 Apr: earlier method | Wed 15 Apr: earlier method | Thu 16 Apr: earlier method | Fri 17 Apr: earlier method | Sat 18 Apr: earlier method | Sun 19 Apr: earlier method |
| YouTube | Mon 13 Apr: earlier method | Tue 14 Apr: earlier method | Wed 15 Apr: earlier method | Thu 16 Apr: earlier method | Fri 17 Apr: earlier method | Sat 18 Apr: earlier method | Sun 19 Apr: earlier method |
| Hacker News | Mon 13 Apr: backfilled | Tue 14 Apr: backfilled | Wed 15 Apr: backfilled | Thu 16 Apr: backfilled | Fri 17 Apr: backfilled | Sat 18 Apr: backfilled | Sun 19 Apr: backfilled |
| arXiv | late heavyMon 13 Apr: backfilled, late heavy | Tue 14 Apr: backfilled | Wed 15 Apr: backfilled | Thu 16 Apr: backfilled | Fri 17 Apr: backfilled | Sat 18 Apr: backfilled | Sun 19 Apr: backfilled |
| Google News | low capturelate heavyMon 13 Apr: earlier method, low capture, late heavy | late heavyTue 14 Apr: earlier method, late heavy | late heavyWed 15 Apr: earlier method, late heavy | late heavyThu 16 Apr: earlier method, late heavy | late heavyFri 17 Apr: earlier method, late heavy | late heavySat 18 Apr: earlier method, late heavy | late heavySun 19 Apr: earlier method, late heavy |
| Exa | Mon 13 Apr: not started | Tue 14 Apr: not started | Wed 15 Apr: not started | Thu 16 Apr: not started | Fri 17 Apr: not started | Sat 18 Apr: not started | Sun 19 Apr: not started |
Coverage computed 2 Oct 2026 07:23Z · as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z · frozen with the release, never recomputed. Each day opens what it holds.A bar marks a flagged day.
Published 2 Oct 2026. Its figures never change. Cite it with its permanent link.
AIDRAN. Release 2026-W16.
Permanent link /releases/2026-W16
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