Weekly release
Posts published 25–31 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.
11,363 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 11,363 distinct people posted about Claude between 25 and 31 May 2026: 17,456 posts, an estimated 5.99% 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 25–31 May 2026 · n 17,456 posts · author coverage 99.9% · 7 days: 7 backfilled, 1 partial
28 distinct people on Hacker News
On Hacker News, 28 distinct people posted about Claude between 25 and 31 May 2026: 29 posts, 9.57% of that week's Hacker News posts about AI (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Hacker News · posts from 25–31 May 2026 · n 29 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled, 1 partial
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 291,664 postsbar: people, #1 = 11,363 | Hacker Newsn 303 postsbar: people, #1 = 28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 11,363#1 | 28#1 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 5,912#2 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 3 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 2,946#3 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 4 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 2,464#4 | Hidden · n 16 people: n 16 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 5 | GPTOpenAI | 2,237#5 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 6 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 1,603#6 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 7 | QwenAlibaba | 1,596#7 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 8 | GrokxAI | 1,486#8 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | CodexOpenAI | 1,474#9 | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 10 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 669#10 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 11 | GemmaGoogle DeepMind | 587#11 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 12 | GitHub CopilotMicrosoft AI | 341#12 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | LlamaMeta | 296#13 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | Claude appAnthropic › Claude | 286#14 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | KimiMoonshot AI | 286#14 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Reddit · n 291,664 posts#1 = 11,363
People on Hacker News · n 303 posts#1 = 28
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 25–31 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 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 291,664 posts on Reddit and 303 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 445 posts · 85 subjects
Qwen 33, GPT 12, Claude 7, Gemini 6 posts, and 81 more subjects
Google News n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 25 and 31 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 25 and 31 May 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The same subjects one week later, on the platform with enough people. Microsoft Copilot 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 (24 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 291,664 and 270,322 posts. 2026-W22 and 2026-W23 follow on from each other, so their lines are joined. 2026-W22 was rebuilt from archives, with live capture from 7 Mar to 31 May; 2026-W23 was backfilled from archives (Reddit, Hacker News and arXiv only).
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.
28 May: published 155,757 · captured 4,994
own scale, top = 155,757
28 May: published 46,963 · captured 46,843
own scale, top = 46,963
25 May: published 188 · captured 187
own scale, top = 188
29 May: published 235 · captured 226 · late 13
own scale, top = 235
25 May: published 129 · captured 326 · late 326 · late heavy
own scale, top = 326
25 May: published 243 · captured 243 · late 13
own scale, top = 243
27 May: published 0 · captured 1,328 · late 1,238 · late heavy
own scale, top = 1,328
Per platform and day, 25–31 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.25–31 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) 127 · Gemini CLI 52 · Gemini app 51
› DeepSeek API 122 · DeepSeek app 28
› Grok app 57 · Grok Build 23
People on Reddit, 25–31 May 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 11,363). 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 |
25–31 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 291,664 posts on Reddit, not recorded on Bluesky, not recorded on YouTube, 303 on Hacker News, 445 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 25 | Tue 26 | Wed 27 | Thu 28 | Fri 29 | Sat 30 | Sun 31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 25 May: backfilled | Tue 26 May: backfilled | Wed 27 May: backfilled | Thu 28 May: backfilled | Fri 29 May: backfilled | Sat 30 May: backfilled | partialSun 31 May: backfilled, partial | |
| Bluesky | Mon 25 May: earlier method | Tue 26 May: earlier method | Wed 27 May: earlier method | Thu 28 May: earlier method | Fri 29 May: earlier method | Sat 30 May: earlier method | partiallow captureSun 31 May: earlier method, partial, low capture |
| YouTube | Mon 25 May: earlier method | Tue 26 May: earlier method | Wed 27 May: earlier method | Thu 28 May: earlier method | Fri 29 May: earlier method | Sat 30 May: earlier method | partiallow captureSun 31 May: earlier method, partial, low capture |
| Hacker News | Mon 25 May: backfilled | Tue 26 May: backfilled | Wed 27 May: backfilled | Thu 28 May: backfilled | Fri 29 May: backfilled | Sat 30 May: backfilled | partialSun 31 May: backfilled, partial |
| arXiv | late heavyMon 25 May: backfilled, late heavy | Tue 26 May: backfilled | Wed 27 May: backfilled | Thu 28 May: backfilled | partialFri 29 May: backfilled, partial | low captureSat 30 May: earlier method, low capture | Sun 31 May: backfilled |
| Google News | Mon 25 May: earlier method | Tue 26 May: earlier method | Wed 27 May: earlier method | Thu 28 May: earlier method | Fri 29 May: earlier method | Sat 30 May: earlier method | partiallow captureSun 31 May: earlier method, partial, low capture |
| Exa | late heavyMon 25 May: episodic, late heavy | late heavyTue 26 May: episodic, late heavy | late heavyWed 27 May: episodic, late heavy | Thu 28 May: episodic | Fri 29 May: episodic | partialSat 30 May: episodic, partial | Sun 31 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.
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