Weekly release
Posts published 18–24 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.
10,350 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 10,350 distinct people posted about Claude between 18 and 24 May 2026: 15,606 posts, an estimated 5.69% 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 18–24 May 2026 · n 15,606 posts · author coverage 99.8% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
20 distinct people on Hacker News
On Hacker News, 20 distinct people posted about Claude between 18 and 24 May 2026: 20 posts, 6.62% of that week's Hacker News posts about AI (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Hacker News · posts from 18–24 May 2026 · n 20 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 274,155 postsbar: people, #1 = 10,350 | Hacker Newsn 302 postsbar: people, #1 = 20 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 10,350#1 | 20#1 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 5,588#2 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 3 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 3,791#3 | Hidden · n 10 people: n 10 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 4 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 2,324#4 | Hidden · n 16 people: n 16 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 5 | GPTOpenAI | 2,220#5 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 6 | QwenAlibaba | 1,775#6 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 7 | GrokxAI | 1,558#7 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 8 | CodexOpenAI | 1,444#8 | Hidden · n 6 people: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 1,338#9 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 10 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 863#10 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 11 | GemmaGoogle DeepMind | 726#11 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 12 | Google AntigravityGoogle DeepMind | 362#12 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | Claude CoworkAnthropic › Claude | 342#13 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | KimiMoonshot AI | 308#14 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 15 | GitHub CopilotMicrosoft AI | 307#15 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Reddit · n 274,155 posts#1 = 10,350
People on Hacker News · n 302 posts#1 = 20
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 18–24 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 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 274,155 posts on Reddit and 302 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 436 posts · 85 subjects
Qwen 18, Claude 13, GPT 10, Gemini 9 posts, and 81 more subjects
Google News n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 18 and 24 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 18 and 24 May 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The same subjects one week later, on the platform with enough people. Claude grew on Reddit while Gemini 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 274,155 and 291,664 posts. 2026-W21 and 2026-W22 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.
19 May: published 149,874 · captured 5,245
own scale, top = 149,874
18 May: published 183 · captured 1 · low capture
own scale, top = 397
18 May: published 178 · captured 184
own scale, top = 184
19 May: published 223 · captured 232 · late 3
own scale, top = 235
19 May: published 454 · captured 911 · late 369
own scale, top = 911
21 May: published 214 · captured 198
own scale, top = 214
24 May: published 45 · captured 95 · late 87 · late heavy
own scale, top = 102
Per platform and day, 18–24 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.18–24 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 API (Google AI Studio) 198 · Gemini app 110 · Gemini CLI 80
› Qwen Code 28
› Grok app 59
› DeepSeek API 65
People on Reddit, 18–24 May 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 10,350). 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 |
18–24 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 274,155 posts on Reddit, not recorded on Bluesky, not recorded on YouTube, 302 on Hacker News, 436 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 18 | Tue 19 | Wed 20 | Thu 21 | Fri 22 | Sat 23 | Sun 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 18 May: backfilled | Tue 19 May: backfilled | Wed 20 May: backfilled | Thu 21 May: backfilled | Fri 22 May: backfilled | Sat 23 May: backfilled | Sun 24 May: backfilled | |
| Bluesky | low captureMon 18 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureTue 19 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureWed 20 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureThu 21 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureFri 22 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureSat 23 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureSun 24 May: earlier method, low capture |
| YouTube | Mon 18 May: earlier method | Tue 19 May: earlier method | Wed 20 May: earlier method | Thu 21 May: earlier method | Fri 22 May: earlier method | Sat 23 May: earlier method | Sun 24 May: earlier method |
| Hacker News | Mon 18 May: backfilled | Tue 19 May: backfilled | Wed 20 May: backfilled | Thu 21 May: backfilled | Fri 22 May: backfilled | Sat 23 May: backfilled | Sun 24 May: backfilled |
| arXiv | late heavyMon 18 May: backfilled, late heavy | Tue 19 May: backfilled | Wed 20 May: backfilled | Thu 21 May: backfilled | Fri 22 May: backfilled | Sat 23 May: backfilled | Sun 24 May: backfilled |
| Google News | Mon 18 May: earlier method | Tue 19 May: earlier method | Wed 20 May: earlier method | Thu 21 May: earlier method | Fri 22 May: earlier method | low captureSat 23 May: earlier method, low capture | low captureSun 24 May: earlier method, low capture |
| Exa | Mon 18 May: episodic | Tue 19 May: episodic | Wed 20 May: episodic | Thu 21 May: episodic | Fri 22 May: episodic | Sat 23 May: episodic | late heavySun 24 May: episodic, late heavy |
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-W21.
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