Weekly release
Posts published 11–17 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.
10,577 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 10,577 distinct people posted about Claude between 11 and 17 May 2026: 16,410 posts, an estimated 5.66% 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 11–17 May 2026 · n 16,410 posts · author coverage 99.9% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
34 distinct people on Hacker News
On Hacker News, 34 distinct people posted about Claude between 11 and 17 May 2026: 34 posts, 11.00% of that week's Hacker News posts about AI (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Hacker News · posts from 11–17 May 2026 · n 34 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 290,132 postsbar: people, #1 = 10,577 | Hacker Newsn 309 postsbar: people, #1 = 34 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 10,577#1 | 34#1 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 6,063#2 | Hidden · n 10 people: n 10 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 3 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 2,725#3 | Hidden · n 5 people: n 5 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 4 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 2,525#4 | Hidden · n 16 people: n 16 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 5 | GPTOpenAI | 2,138#5 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 6 | GrokxAI | 1,749#6 | Hidden · n 3 people: n 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 7 | QwenAlibaba | 1,728#7 | Hidden · n 3 people: n 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 8 | CodexOpenAI | 1,698#8 | Hidden · n 12 people: n 12 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 1,147#9 | Hidden · n 3 people: n 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 10 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 731#10 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 11 | GemmaGoogle DeepMind | 605#11 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 12 | SoraOpenAI | 353#12 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | GitHub CopilotMicrosoft AI | 348#13 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | KimiMoonshot AI | 331#14 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 15 | Claude CoworkAnthropic › Claude | 329#15 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Reddit · n 290,132 posts#1 = 10,577
People on Hacker News · n 309 posts#1 = 34
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 11–17 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 10 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 290,132 posts on Reddit and 309 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 443 posts · 85 subjects
GPT 21, Qwen 21, Llama 15, Gemini 14 posts, and 81 more subjects
Google News n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 11 and 17 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 11 and 17 May 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The same subjects one week later, on the platform with enough people. Gemini grew on Reddit while ChatGPT eased.
Reddit · people per subject
Distinct people per subject on each release’s board, for subjects with n ≥ 100 posts in both weeks (27 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 290,132 and 274,155 posts. 2026-W20 and 2026-W21 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.
15 May: published 144,777 · captured 8,392
own scale, top = 150,111
15 May: published 133 · captured 15 · late 15 · low capture
own scale, top = 179
15 May: published 136 · captured 183
own scale, top = 183
15 May: published 199 · captured 616 · late 243
own scale, top = 616
15 May: published 386 · captured 10,000 · late 9,172 · late heavy
own scale, top = 10,000
15 May: published 123 · captured 181 · late 15 · low capture
own scale, top = 181
15 May: published 32 · captured 4,012 · late 3,982 · partial, late heavy
own scale, top = 4,012
Per platform and day, 11–17 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 08:23Z. 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.11–17 May 2026, from conditions.coverage, computed 2 Oct 2026 08:23Z. 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) 118 · Gemini CLI 67 · Gemini app 37
› Grok app 103
› DeepSeek API 58
People on Reddit, 11–17 May 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 10,577). 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 |
11–17 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 290,132 posts on Reddit, not recorded on Bluesky, not recorded on YouTube, 309 on Hacker News, 443 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 11 | Tue 12 | Wed 13 | Thu 14 | Fri 15 | Sat 16 | Sun 17 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 11 May: backfilled | Tue 12 May: backfilled | Wed 13 May: backfilled | Thu 14 May: backfilled | Fri 15 May: backfilled | Sat 16 May: backfilled | Sun 17 May: backfilled | |
| Bluesky | low captureMon 11 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureTue 12 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureWed 13 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureThu 14 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureFri 15 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureSat 16 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureSun 17 May: earlier method, low capture |
| YouTube | low captureMon 11 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureTue 12 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureWed 13 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureThu 14 May: earlier method, low capture | Fri 15 May: earlier method | low captureSat 16 May: earlier method, low capture | Sun 17 May: earlier method |
| Hacker News | Mon 11 May: backfilled | Tue 12 May: backfilled | Wed 13 May: backfilled | Thu 14 May: backfilled | Fri 15 May: backfilled | Sat 16 May: backfilled | Sun 17 May: backfilled |
| arXiv | Mon 11 May: backfilled | Tue 12 May: backfilled | Wed 13 May: backfilled | Thu 14 May: backfilled | late heavyFri 15 May: backfilled, late heavy | Sat 16 May: backfilled | Sun 17 May: backfilled |
| Google News | low captureMon 11 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureTue 12 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureWed 13 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureThu 14 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureFri 15 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureSat 16 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureSun 17 May: earlier method, low capture |
| Exa | Mon 11 May: not started | Tue 12 May: not started | Wed 13 May: not started | Thu 14 May: not started | partiallate heavyFri 15 May: episodic, partial, late heavy | Sat 16 May: episodic | Sun 17 May: episodic |
Coverage computed 2 Oct 2026 08:23Z · 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-W20.
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