Trending Signal

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Viral and pre-viral signal across search, social, tech, news, code, and prediction markets — Google Trends, X, Reddit, Hacker News, Techmeme, GitHub Trending, Polymarket. Scored by engagement velocity. Refreshed every 4 hours.

Snapshot: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:00 GMT
7.4
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

Will Adanech Abiebie be the next Prime Minister of Ethiopia?

General elections are scheduled to be held in Ethiopia on June 1, 2026. This market will resolve to the next individual who officially assumes the office of Prime Minister of Ethiopia following the 2026 General elections. To count for res

1,038,096.8951038097/hrAdanech · Abiebie · Prime@Polymarket
7.4
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

public-apis/public-apis

A collective list of free APIs

1,5881588/hrAPIs@public-apis
7.2
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

Will Pablo Marçal win the 2026 Brazilian presidential election?

A presidential election is scheduled to take place in Brazil on October 4, 2026. This market will resolve according to the listed candidate that wins this election. This market includes any potential second round. If the result of this el

744,820.118744820/hrPablo · Brazilian@Polymarket
6.9
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

Will Shakhtar Donetsk win the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship?

This market will resolve according to the team that wins the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship. If at any point it becomes impossible for a listed team to win the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship per the rules of UEFA Ch

418,494.57418495/hrShakhtar · Donetsk · UEFA@Polymarket
6.8
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

LoL: T1 vs DN SOOPers (BO5) - KeSPA Cup Playoffs

This market refers to the LoL Semifinal match between T1 and DN SOOPers in the KeSPA Cup Playoffs, initially scheduled for August 17, 2026 at 5:00 AM ET. This market will resolve to "T1" if T1 win the match against DN SOOPers. This market

373,028.95373029/hrLoL · SOOPers · BO5@Polymarket
6.7
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

cordiverse/cordis

Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability

720720/hrMeta · Framework · Spatiotemporal@cordiverse
6.6
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

Will James Fishback be the Republican nominee for Florida Governor?

This market will resolve according to the winner of the Republican Primary for Governor of Florida, scheduled to take place on August 18, 2026. If no 2026 Florida Republican Gubernatorial Primary takes place, this market will resolve to “O

258,231.434258231/hrJames · Fishback · Republican@Polymarket
6.6
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by August 31?

This market will resolve to “Yes” if IMF Portwatch publishes a 7-day moving average of transit calls (“Arrivals of Ships”) for the Strait of Hormuz equal to or above 60 for any date between market creation and August 31, 2026. Otherwise, th

252,416.686252417/hrStrait · Hormuz@Polymarket
6.5
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

Will Bitcoin dip to $45,000 by December 31, 2026?

This market will immediately resolve to "Yes" if any Binance 1 minute candle for Bitcoin (BTC/USDT) between November 24, 2025, 14:00 and December 31, 2026, 23:59 in the ET timezone has a final "Low" price equal to or lower than the price sp

239,519.077239519/hrBitcoin@Polymarket
6.5
viral
GitHubai3h ago

unslothai/unsloth

Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models, including Qwen3.8, Kimi K3, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, DeepSeek-V4, FLUX and more.

572572/hrLocal · LLMs · Qwen3@unslothai
6.5
viral
TechmemeaiPre-viral3h ago

How US industrial companies like Caterpillar, Cummins, Eaton, and Ford are pivoting their businesses to feed a booming AI data-center market for power equipment (Bob Tita/Wall Street Journal)

0/hrCaterpillar · Cummins · Eaton@Techmeme
6.5
viral
TechmemetechPre-viral5h ago

Qwen 3.8 27B shows a 17GB open-weight general purpose model can have long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

0/hrQwen · Simon · Willison@Techmeme
6.5
viral
TechmemeaiPre-viral6h ago

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B in January (James Fontanella-Khan/Financial Times)

0/hrHiggsfield · DST · Goldman@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemegeopolitics6h ago

Chainalysis sues the US government over ICE's $94.6M contract to buy forensic software and services from its competitor TRM Labs, calling the deal "arbitrary" (Ezra Reguerra/Cointelegraph)

0/hrChainalysis · ICE · TRM@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai7h ago

Anthropic's text watermark alters word probabilities to embed a fingerprint, which could degrade Claude's writing, despite its claim of no impact on quality (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

0/hrAnthropic · Claude · John@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai9h ago

Singapore hopes access to advanced AI models will stem the flow of finance talent to Hong Kong, where financial firms struggle to access the latest US AI models (Financial Times)

0/hrSingapore · Hong · Kong@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai10h ago

A look at companies like Inception Point creating AI personas for media, fashion, film, and music industries that could host podcasts, model clothes, and more (Reggie Ugwu/New York Times)

0/hrInception · Point · Reggie@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai12h ago

How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

0/hrClaude · Riemann · Ben@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemetech14h ago

French PM Lecornu will hold a crisis meeting Monday over a June-July cyberattack on France's tax agency that compromised 678K individual and business accounts (Phil Serafino/Bloomberg)

0/hrFrench · Lecornu · France@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai15h ago

Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May (Bloomberg)

0/hrStripe · OpenRouter@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai17h ago

Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases (Alex Janin/Wall Street Journal)

0/hrPatients · Face2Gene · Alex@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai20h ago

How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (Washington Post)

0/hrWashington@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemetech22h ago

A profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them (Jason Douglas/Wall Street Journal)

0/hrSony · CEO · Hiroki@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemefinance1d ago

Malaysia's 6% Q2 GDP growth was powered by 7.5% manufacturing growth, driven by chipmaking, and 6.6% construction growth, supported by data center development (Owen Walker/Financial Times)

0/hrMalaysia · GDP · Owen@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai1d ago

Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers says most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs (Timothy Gowers/Gowers's Weblog)

0/hrFields · Medalist · Timothy@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

Bitcoin Up or Down on August 17?

This market will resolve to "Up" if the "Close" price for the Binance 1 minute candle for BTC/USDT Aug 16 '26 12:00 in the ET timezone (noon) is lower than the final "Close" price for the Aug 17 '26 12:00 ET candle. This market will resolv

212,986.166212986/hrBitcoin@Polymarket
6.3
viral
GitHubai3h ago

ToolJet/ToolJet

ToolJet is the open-source foundation of ToolJet AI - the enterprise app generation platform for building internal tools, dashboard, business applications, workflows and AI agents 🚀

452452/hrToolJet@ToolJet
6.3
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

cactus-compute/needle

14MB foundation model for tiny devices; phones, wearables, smart home, and robots.

443443/hr@cactus-compute
6.0
viral
Googleother7h ago

hayden panettiere

5,000,0001250000/hr
6.0
viral
Xother6h ago

Remember the Titans

00/hrRemember · Titans
5.9
viral
Googleother14h ago

fever vs dream

200,00018182/hr
5.9
viral
Xother6h ago

Michelle Trachtenberg

00/hrMichelle · Trachtenberg
5.9
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

basecamp/omarchy

Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux

270270/hrBeautiful · Modern · Opinionated@basecamp
5.9
viral
Googleother9h ago

von miller

100,00016667/hr
5.9
viral
Xother6h ago

South Korea

00/hrSouth · Korea
5.8
viral
Googleother10h ago

santos laguna vs guadalajara

100,00014286/hr
5.8
viral
Xother6h ago

Save the Cheerleader

00/hrSave · Cheerleader
5.7
viral
Googleother7h ago

michelle trachtenberg

50,00012500/hr
5.7
viral
Xother6h ago

Guiding Light

00/hrGuiding · Light
5.7
viral
Googleother8h ago

tijuana - cruz azul

50,00010000/hr
5.7
viral
Xother6h ago

Reese

00/hrReese
5.6
viral
Googleother17h ago

taylor swift new short hair

100,0007143/hr
5.6
viral
Xother6h ago

#baddiesgonewild

00/hr
5.5
viral
Googleother19h ago

rebel creamery ice cream lawsuit

100,0006250/hr
5.5
viral
Xother6h ago

Butterfly

00/hrButterfly
5.4
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Googleother7h ago

hayden christensen

20,0005000/hr
5.4
viral
Xother6h ago

Kyle Chandler

00/hrKyle · Chandler
5.4
viral
Googleother14h ago

jordyn woods

50,0004545/hr
5.4
viral
Xother6h ago

Shamea

00/hrShamea
5.4
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

OpenCut-app/OpenCut

The open-source CapCut alternative

150150/hrOpenCut · CapCut@OpenCut-app
5.3
viral
Googleother14h ago

nancy mace

50,0004545/hr
5.3
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Xother6h ago

Von Miller

00/hrVon · Miller
5.2
viral
Googleother8h ago

club tijuana vs cruz azul

20,0004000/hr
5.2
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Xother6h ago

Only 36

00/hrOnly
5.2
viral
Googleother17h ago

prince harry uk visits

50,0003571/hr
5.2
viral
Xother6h ago

Tiger Cruise

00/hrTiger · Cruise
5.1
viral
Googleother10h ago

flock cameras

20,0002857/hr
5.1
viral
Xother6h ago

#EVAN

00/hrEVAN
5.0
viral
Googleother23h ago

supreme court

50,0002500/hr
5.0
viral
Xother6h ago

taehyun

00/hr
4.4
viral
HNother11h ago

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

380💬 17056/hrQwen@bilsbie
4.0
viral
HNother22h ago

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

644💬 25541/hrFirefox@pentagrama
4.0
viral
HNother18h ago

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

480💬 25040/hrRISC@Narishma
4.0
viral
HNai22h ago

Claude: System Prompts

635💬 25240/hrClaude · System · Prompts@tosh
3.9
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HNtech17h ago

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

460💬 11737/hrCloudflare@stagas
3.9
viral
HNother14h ago

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

319💬 20337/hrStripe · OpenRouter@zacharyozer
3.9
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HNother11h ago

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

213💬 9934/hr@walrus01
3.8
viral
HNother16h ago

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

310💬 17231/hrModels · Getting · Dumber@hruvhwe
3.7
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HNother11h ago

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

183💬 9030/hrLife · Death · Direct@ronbenton
3.6
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HNai13h ago

Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

186💬 18227/hrAnthropic · Watermark · Text@ropbear
3.5
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HNother22h ago

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

392💬 13623/hrResearch@Alifatisk
3.4
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HNai14h ago

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

199💬 9423/hrNvidia · OpenAI@root-parent
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HNother5h ago

Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler

44💬 2020/hrLinear · Algebra · Right@the-mitr
3.3
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HNai20h ago

The AI Credit Resale Economy

277💬 11319/hrCredit · Resale · Economy@mlenhard
3.2
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HNother8h ago

GIMP Development Update

76💬 2318/hrGIMP · Development@lumpa
3.1
viral
HNother19h ago

The weekend is 100 years old

194💬 14016/hr@lentil_soup
3.0
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HNother20h ago

St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

186💬 13815/hrLucie · Nuclear · Reactor@toomuchtodo
3.0
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HNother11h ago

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

107💬 2315/hrReticulum · Decentralized · Mesh@sudo_cowsay
3.0
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HNother16h ago

Protobuf has LSP support

147💬 9815/hrProtobuf · LSP@theanonymousone
3.0
viral
HNother5h ago

$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM

31💬 1415/hrPJM@_delirium
2.9
viral
HNother2d ago

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

330💬 30314/hrAbdominal · BMI@theanonymousone
2.8
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HNai9h ago

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

73💬 912/hrAGI · Brings · Sierra@erickhill
2.8
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HNother19h ago

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

150💬 7612/hrNIH@brandonb
2.7
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HNother10h ago

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

69💬 2411/hrRhombus@spdegabrielle
2.5
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HNother2d ago

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

269💬 639/hrCultivating@felixbraun
2.4
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HNother1d ago

Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

183💬 1308/hrPatterns@maxutility
2.3
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HNother17h ago

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

86💬 287/hrMathCode · Mathematical · Coding@homarp
2.2
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HNother20h ago

GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

77💬 646/hrGPS · Lost · Art@karakoram
2.1
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HNother10h ago

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees

41💬 26/hrProlly@forhappy
2.1
viral
HNother10h ago

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”

40💬 96/hrApplying@gumby
2.0
viral
HNtech8h ago

If Meta loses this trial, Instagram and Facebook could change forever

28💬 66/hrMeta · Instagram · Facebook@tartoran
2.0
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HNother23h ago

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

103💬 116/hrTrue · Telnet · BBS@austinallegro
2.0
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HNai21h ago

Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users

70💬 645/hr@adjohu
1.9
viral
HNai1d ago

AI Coding Without the Vibes

82💬 505/hrCoding · Vibes@riskone
1.9
viral
HNai15h ago

Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI

50💬 105/hrRed@hardlianotion
1.8
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HNother1d ago

Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)

112💬 274/hrGuiding · Ships · Moire@Eridanus2
1.6
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HNother7h ago

US Air Force jet engine manufacturing plagued by 'significant challenges'

12💬 84/hrAir · Force@toomuchtodo
1.6
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HNother1d ago

Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

82💬 373/hrMic · Drop@johnsillings
1.5
viral
HNother11h ago

TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video]

21💬 63/hrTSMC · Uses · Fabs@eig
1.4
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HNother1d ago

Falstad Math and Physics Simulations

70💬 143/hrFalstad · Math · Physics@pykello
1.2
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HNai1d ago

Health benefits of Tai Chi

43💬 252/hrHealth · Tai · Chi@helloplanets
1.1
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HNother8h ago

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)

9💬 12/hrStrong@andsoitis
1.1
viral
HNother2d ago

AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code

55💬 72/hrAssisted · GPU · Porting@Jimmc414
0.8
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HNai9h ago

On A.I. regulation and messaging

6💬 11/hr@jacquesm
0.8
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HNother12h ago

Nobody Knows Anything

9💬 11/hrNobody · Knows · Anything@gtirloni
0.6
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HNother17h ago

Show HN: Flynt.js – 2.2kb, zero-build, CSP-safe reactivity library for MPAs

9💬 11/hrFlynt · CSP · MPAs@bosmarcel
0.5
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HNother17h ago

Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector

9💬 01/hrSectorforth · Forth@sigalor
0.5
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HNother21h ago

Show HN: PageSieve, a web scraping browser extension

11💬 01/hrPageSieve@kajm