Weekly release
Posts published 27 Apr – 3 May 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.
12,169 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 12,169 distinct people posted about Claude between 27 April and 3 May 2026: 18,677 posts, an estimated 6.45% of that week's Reddit posts about AI, leaving out templated automated posts (99.9% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Reddit · posts from 27 Apr – 3 May 2026 · n 18,677 posts · author coverage 99.9% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
45 distinct people on Hacker News
On Hacker News, 45 distinct people posted about Claude between 27 April and 3 May 2026: 45 posts, 13.72% of that week's Hacker News posts about AI (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Hacker News · posts from 27 Apr – 3 May 2026 · n 45 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 289,624 postsbar: people, #1 = 12,169 | Hacker Newsn 328 postsbar: people, #1 = 45 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 12,169#1 | 45#1 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 6,445#2 | Hidden · n 3 people: n 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 3 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 3,351#3 | Hidden · n 5 people: n 5 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 4 | GPTOpenAI | 2,935#4 | Hidden · n 5 people: n 5 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 5 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 2,869#5 | 20#2 |
| 6 | QwenAlibaba | 2,187#6 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 7 | CodexOpenAI | 1,823#7 | Hidden · n 9 people: n 9 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 8 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 1,624#8 | Hidden · n 6 people: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | GrokxAI | 1,500#9 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 10 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 1,119#10 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 11 | GemmaGoogle DeepMind | 771#11 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 12 | SoraOpenAI | 687#12 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | GitHub CopilotMicrosoft AI | 636#13 | Hidden · n 5 people: n 5 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | KimiMoonshot AI | 621#14 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 15 | GLMZhipu AI | 437#15 | Hidden · n 3 people: n 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Reddit · n 289,624 posts#1 = 12,169
People on Hacker News · n 328 posts#1 = 45
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 27 Apr – 3 May 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 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 289,624 posts on Reddit and 328 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 406 posts · 85 subjects
Qwen 14, Gemini 11, GPT 9, Claude 8 posts, and 81 more subjects
Google News n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 27 April and 3 May 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 27 April and 3 May 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The same subjects one week later, on the platform with enough people. Wan 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 (28 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 289,624 and 268,354 posts. 2026-W18 and 2026-W19 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.
30 Apr: published 142,968 · captured 3,066
own scale, top = 153,219
28 Apr: published 6,602 · captured 6,476
own scale, top = 6,602
30 Apr: published 322 · captured 365 · late 1
own scale, top = 365
30 Apr: published 210 · captured 25
own scale, top = 215
30 Apr: published 484 · captured 148
own scale, top = 484
27 Apr: published 89 · captured 874 · late 862 · late heavy
own scale, top = 874
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 133
Per platform and day, 27 Apr – 3 May 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.27 Apr – 3 May 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 API (Google AI Studio) 174 · Gemini CLI 109 · Gemini app 79
› Qwen Code 23
› DeepSeek API 84 · DeepSeek app 22
› Grok app 92
› Sora app 32
People on Reddit, 27 Apr – 3 May 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 12,169). 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 |
27 Apr – 3 May 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 289,624 posts on Reddit, not recorded on Bluesky, not recorded on YouTube, 328 on Hacker News, 406 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 27 | Tue 28 | Wed 29 | Thu 30 | Fri 1 | Sat 2 | Sun 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 27 Apr: backfilled | Tue 28 Apr: backfilled | Wed 29 Apr: backfilled | Thu 30 Apr: backfilled | Fri 1 May: backfilled | Sat 2 May: backfilled | Sun 3 May: backfilled | |
| Bluesky | Mon 27 Apr: earlier method | Tue 28 Apr: earlier method | Wed 29 Apr: earlier method | Thu 30 Apr: earlier method | Fri 1 May: earlier method | Sat 2 May: earlier method | Sun 3 May: earlier method |
| YouTube | Mon 27 Apr: earlier method | low captureTue 28 Apr: earlier method, low capture | low captureWed 29 Apr: earlier method, low capture | Thu 30 Apr: earlier method | Fri 1 May: earlier method | Sat 2 May: earlier method | Sun 3 May: earlier method |
| Hacker News | Mon 27 Apr: backfilled | Tue 28 Apr: backfilled | Wed 29 Apr: backfilled | Thu 30 Apr: backfilled | Fri 1 May: backfilled | Sat 2 May: backfilled | Sun 3 May: backfilled |
| arXiv | late heavyMon 27 Apr: backfilled, late heavy | Tue 28 Apr: backfilled | Wed 29 Apr: backfilled | Thu 30 Apr: backfilled | Fri 1 May: backfilled | Sat 2 May: backfilled | Sun 3 May: backfilled |
| Google News | late heavyMon 27 Apr: earlier method, late heavy | low capturelate heavyTue 28 Apr: earlier method, low capture, late heavy | low capturelate heavyWed 29 Apr: earlier method, low capture, late heavy | late heavyThu 30 Apr: earlier method, late heavy | late heavyFri 1 May: earlier method, late heavy | late heavySat 2 May: earlier method, late heavy | late heavySun 3 May: earlier method, late heavy |
| Exa | Mon 27 Apr: not started | Tue 28 Apr: not started | Wed 29 Apr: not started | Thu 30 Apr: not started | Fri 1 May: not started | Sat 2 May: not started | Sun 3 May: 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-W18.
Permanent link /releases/2026-W18
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