Weekly release
Posts published 7–13 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.
9,248 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 9,248 distinct people posted about Claude between 7 and 13 September 2026: 13,617 posts, an estimated 4.43% 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 7–13 Sep 2026 · n 13,617 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
21 distinct people on Hacker News
On Hacker News, 21 distinct people posted about Claude between 7 and 13 September 2026: 23 posts, 6.34% 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 7–13 Sep 2026 · n 23 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 307,387 postsbar: people, #1 = 9,248 | Hacker Newsn 363 postsbar: people, #1 = 21 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 9,248#1 | 21#1 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 5,670#2 | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 3 | GPTOpenAI | 3,053#3 | Hidden · n 11 people: n 11 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 4 | CodexOpenAI | 2,186#4 | Hidden · n 6 people: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 5 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 2,052#5 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 6 | QwenAlibaba | 1,988#6 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 7 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 1,918#7 | Hidden · n 6 people: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 8 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 1,573#8 | Hidden · n 6 people: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | GrokxAI | 974#9 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 10 | GLMZhipu AI | 711#10 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 11 | MiniMax H-seriesMiniMax | 673#11 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 12 | GemmaGoogle DeepMind | 454#12 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | KimiMoonshot AI | 423#13 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | MuseMeta | 335#14 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 15 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 297#15 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Reddit · n 307,387 posts#1 = 9,248
People on Hacker News · n 363 posts#1 = 21
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 7–13 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 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 307,387 posts on Reddit and 363 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 319 posts · 85 subjects
Qwen 21, GPT 6, Gemma 5, Kimi 3 posts, and 81 more subjects
Google News n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 7 and 13 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 7 and 13 September 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The same subjects one week later, on the platform with enough people. Qwen grew on Reddit while GPT 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 307,387 and 284,133 posts. 2026-W37 and 2026-W38 follow on from each other, so their lines are joined. 2026-W37 was backfilled from archives (Reddit, Hacker News and arXiv only); 2026-W38 was captured live from 16 Sep and filled in from archives.
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 = 152,679
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 2,984
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 = 201
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 108
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 2
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 34
Per platform and day, 7–13 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.7–13 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 API (Google AI Studio) 66 · Gemini app 34
› DeepSeek Harness 133 · DeepSeek API 82 · DeepSeek app 26
› Grok app 31
People on Reddit, 7–13 Sep 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 13:30Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 9,248). 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 |
7–13 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 307,387 posts on Reddit, not recorded on Bluesky, 363 on Hacker News, 319 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 7 | Tue 8 | Wed 9 | Thu 10 | Fri 11 | Sat 12 | Sun 13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 7 Sep: backfilled | Tue 8 Sep: backfilled | Wed 9 Sep: backfilled | Thu 10 Sep: backfilled | Fri 11 Sep: backfilled | Sat 12 Sep: backfilled | Sun 13 Sep: backfilled | |
| Bluesky | Mon 7 Sep: not started | Tue 8 Sep: not started | Wed 9 Sep: not started | Thu 10 Sep: not started | Fri 11 Sep: not started | Sat 12 Sep: not started | Sun 13 Sep: not started |
| YouTube | Mon 7 Sep: not started | Tue 8 Sep: not started | Wed 9 Sep: not started | Thu 10 Sep: not started | Fri 11 Sep: not started | Sat 12 Sep: not started | Sun 13 Sep: not started |
| Hacker News | Mon 7 Sep: backfilled | Tue 8 Sep: backfilled | Wed 9 Sep: backfilled | Thu 10 Sep: backfilled | Fri 11 Sep: backfilled | Sat 12 Sep: backfilled | Sun 13 Sep: backfilled |
| arXiv | Mon 7 Sep: backfilled | Tue 8 Sep: backfilled | Wed 9 Sep: backfilled | Thu 10 Sep: backfilled | Fri 11 Sep: backfilled | Sat 12 Sep: backfilled | Sun 13 Sep: backfilled |
| Google News | Mon 7 Sep: not started | Tue 8 Sep: not started | Wed 9 Sep: not started | Thu 10 Sep: not started | Fri 11 Sep: not started | Sat 12 Sep: not started | Sun 13 Sep: not started |
| Exa | Mon 7 Sep: not started | Tue 8 Sep: not started | Wed 9 Sep: not started | Thu 10 Sep: not started | Fri 11 Sep: not started | Sat 12 Sep: not started | Sun 13 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-W37.
Permanent link /releases/2026-W37
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