Weekly release
Posts published 31 Aug – 6 Sep 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
Archive backfillBackfilled from archives (Reddit, Hacker News and arXiv only).
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.
10,741 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 10,741 distinct people posted about Claude between 31 August and 6 September 2026: 16,680 posts, an estimated 6.11% of that week's Reddit posts about AI, leaving out spam, bot, incentive and templated automated posts (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Reddit · posts from 31 Aug – 6 Sep 2026 · n 16,680 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
26 distinct people on Hacker News
On Hacker News, 26 distinct people posted about Claude between 31 August and 6 September 2026: 26 posts, 8.70% of that week's Hacker News posts about AI, leaving out spam, bot and incentive posts (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Hacker News · posts from 31 Aug – 6 Sep 2026 · n 26 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 273,071 postsbar: people, #1 = 10,741 | Hacker Newsn 299 postsbar: people, #1 = 26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 10,741#1 | 26#1 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 5,637#2 | Hidden · n 13 people: n 13 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 3 | GPTOpenAI | 2,830#3 | Hidden · n 15 people: n 15 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 4 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 2,315#4 | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 5 | QwenAlibaba | 2,121#5 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 6 | CodexOpenAI | 2,096#6 | Hidden · n 9 people: n 9 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 7 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 1,727#7 | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 8 | GrokxAI | 1,145#8 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 1,007#9 | Hidden · n 3 people: n 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 10 | MiniMax H-seriesMiniMax | 855#10 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 11 | GLMZhipu AI | 703#11 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 12 | GemmaGoogle DeepMind | 552#12 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | KimiMoonshot AI | 343#13 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 325#14 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 15 | MuseMeta | 292#15 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Reddit · n 273,071 posts#1 = 10,741
People on Hacker News · n 299 posts#1 = 26
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 31 Aug – 6 Sep 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 13:30Z; 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 13 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 273,071 posts on Reddit and 299 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 426 posts · 85 subjects
Qwen 32, GPT 14, Claude 10, Llama 10 posts, and 81 more subjects
Google News n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 31 August and 6 September 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 31 August and 6 September 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The same subjects one week later, on the platform with enough people. DeepSeek 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 13:30Z; 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 273,071 and 307,387 posts. 2026-W36 and 2026-W37 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.
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 152,301
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 1,678
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 1
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 219
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 112
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 1
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 145
Per platform and day, 31 Aug – 6 Sep 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 12:23Z. 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.31 Aug – 6 Sep 2026, from conditions.coverage, computed 2 Oct 2026 12:23Z. 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) 87 · Gemini app 44 · Gemini CLI 22
› Grok app 37
› DeepSeek Harness 92 · DeepSeek API 25
People on Reddit, 31 Aug – 6 Sep 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 13:30Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 10,741). 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 | |
| Hacker News | 100.0% | |||
| arXiv | not applicable | 0.0% | ||
| Google News | hidden | hidden | not applicable | |
| Exa | hidden | hidden | not applicable |
31 Aug – 6 Sep 2026 · as of 25 Sep 2026 13:30Z · 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 273,071 posts on Reddit, not recorded on Bluesky, 299 on Hacker News, 426 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 31 | Tue 1 | Wed 2 | Thu 3 | Fri 4 | Sat 5 | Sun 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 31 Aug: backfilled | Tue 1 Sep: backfilled | Wed 2 Sep: backfilled | Thu 3 Sep: backfilled | Fri 4 Sep: backfilled | Sat 5 Sep: backfilled | Sun 6 Sep: backfilled | |
| Bluesky | Mon 31 Aug: not started | Tue 1 Sep: not started | Wed 2 Sep: not started | Thu 3 Sep: not started | Fri 4 Sep: not started | Sat 5 Sep: not started | Sun 6 Sep: not started |
| YouTube | Mon 31 Aug: not started | Tue 1 Sep: not started | Wed 2 Sep: not started | Thu 3 Sep: not started | Fri 4 Sep: not started | Sat 5 Sep: not started | Sun 6 Sep: not started |
| Hacker News | Mon 31 Aug: backfilled | Tue 1 Sep: backfilled | Wed 2 Sep: backfilled | Thu 3 Sep: backfilled | Fri 4 Sep: backfilled | Sat 5 Sep: backfilled | Sun 6 Sep: backfilled |
| arXiv | Mon 31 Aug: backfilled | Tue 1 Sep: backfilled | Wed 2 Sep: backfilled | Thu 3 Sep: backfilled | Fri 4 Sep: backfilled | Sat 5 Sep: backfilled | Sun 6 Sep: backfilled |
| Google News | Mon 31 Aug: not started | Tue 1 Sep: not started | Wed 2 Sep: not started | Thu 3 Sep: not started | Fri 4 Sep: not started | Sat 5 Sep: not started | Sun 6 Sep: not started |
| Exa | Mon 31 Aug: not started | Tue 1 Sep: not started | Wed 2 Sep: not started | Thu 3 Sep: not started | Fri 4 Sep: not started | Sat 5 Sep: not started | Sun 6 Sep: not started |
Coverage computed 2 Oct 2026 12:23Z · as of 25 Sep 2026 13:30Z · 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-W36.
Permanent link /releases/2026-W36
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