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: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:00:03 GMT
8.4
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

Steelers vs. Browns

In the upcoming NFL game, scheduled for October 1 at 8:15PM ET: If Steelers wins, the market will resolve to "Steelers". If Browns wins, the market will resolve to "Browns". If the game is postponed, this market will remain open until the g

▲ 4,950,352.9554950353/hrSteelers · Browns@Polymarket
7.8
viral
GitHubai3h ago

NVIDIA/OpenShell

OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents.

▲ 2,4562456/hrNVIDIA · OpenShell@NVIDIA
7.3
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

Will there be no change in Fed interest rates after the October 2026 meeting?

The FED interest rates are defined in this market by the upper bound of the target federal funds range. The decisions on the target federal funds range are made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings. This market will resolve

▲ 805,297.409805297/hrFed@Polymarket
7.2
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

North Texas vs. Tulsa

In the upcoming college football game between North Texas and Tulsa, scheduled for October 1 at 9:00PM ET: This market will resolve to "North Texas" if North Texas win the game. This market will resolve to "Tulsa" if Tulsa win the game. Ove

▲ 743,508.039743508/hrNorth · Texas · Tulsa@Polymarket
7.2
viral
GitHubai3h ago

DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

▲ 1,1941194/hrDietrichGebert@DietrichGebert
7.1
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

Will Renan Santos 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

▲ 589,338.124589338/hrRenan · Santos · Brazilian@Polymarket
7.0
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

Will the U.S. invade Iran before 2027?

This market will resolve to "Yes" if the United States commences a military offensive intended to establish control over any portion of Iran by December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No". For the purposes o

▲ 529,031.344529031/hrIran@Polymarket
6.9
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

mattpocock/skills

Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.

▲ 883883/hrSkills · Real · Engineers@mattpocock
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

▲ 431,526.38431526/hrShakhtar · Donetsk · UEFA@Polymarket
6.8
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

China Open: Anastasia Potapova vs Sinja Kraus

This market refers to the tennis match between Anastasia Potapova and Sinja Kraus in the China Open, originally scheduled for October 1, 2026 at 11:00PM ET. This market will resolve to 'Anastasia Potapova' if Anastasia Potapova advances ag

▲ 366,118.617366119/hrChina · Open · Anastasia@Polymarket
6.8
viral
Polymarketfinance3h ago

2026 Balance of Power: R Senate, R House

This market will resolve according to the party that wins control of the United States Senate and the party that wins control of the United States House of Representatives in the 2026 United States midterm election. A party wins control of

▲ 356,393.396356393/hrBalance · Power · Senate@Polymarket
6.6
viral
GitHubai3h ago

mvschwarz/openrig

Build your own network of agents from Claude Code, Codex and Pi: persistent teams with roles, shared context and owned work.

▲ 642642/hrBuild · Claude · Code@mvschwarz
6.6
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

heygen-com/hyperframes

Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.

▲ 627627/hrWrite · HTML · Render@heygen-com
6.5
viral
Techmemeai⚡ Pre-viral3h ago

Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

0/hrExperts · Nvidia · Chinese@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemetech⚡ Pre-viral4h ago

Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)

0/hrCloudflare · Clef · Jev@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai⚡ Pre-viral5h ago

OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

0/hrOpenAI · Arasu · Kannagi@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai⚡ Pre-viral5h ago

Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)

0/hrJay · Clayton · White@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemetech6h ago

Survey of 37 countries: the share of people who say social media is bad for democracy has risen significantly since 2022 or 2023; a median 55% say it's good (Pew Research Center)

0/hrSurvey · Pew · Research@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai7h ago

A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes cannot contain agents (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering)

0/hrMatthew · Green · Few@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai8h ago

California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

0/hrCalifornia · Rob · Bonta@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemetech8h ago

Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash (Microsoft AI)

0/hrMicrosoft · MAI · Transcribe@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemetech8h ago

New Mexico asks a judge to order Meta to pay up to $40B after a jury found it willfully deceived customers, in what could be the biggest US court penalty ever (KRQE)

0/hrMexico · Meta · KRQE@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemegeopolitics8h ago

The US sanctions Russia-backed payment network A7, freezing any of its US assets, and accuses it of helping Iran and its proxy groups to evade Western sanctions (Amy Mackinnon/Financial Times)

0/hrRussia · Iran · Western@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai9h ago

Source: some of the information that the three now ex-OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

0/hrOpenAI · Rachel · Metz@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemetech9h ago

Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California's claims that Lyft mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020 (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

0/hrLyft · California · Daniel@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai10h ago

OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

0/hrOpenAI · ChatGPT · Favorites@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemetech11h ago

DoorDash pulls support for a GOP bill that would have limited DC's ability to write its own tax laws, after widespread calls for locals to boycott the service (Martin Austermuhle/The Washington Sun)

0/hrDoorDash · GOP · Martin@Techmeme
6.5
viral
Techmemeai11h ago

Anthropic urges Australia to consider "conditional approval" for Big Tech to train its models on copyrighted works, giving copyright holders a choice to opt out (Josh Butler/The Guardian)

0/hrAnthropic · Australia · Big@Techmeme
6.4
viral
GitHubai3h ago

pbakaus/impeccable

The design language that makes your AI harness better at design.

▲ 495495/hr@pbakaus
6.3
viral
GitHubfinance3h ago

obra/superpowers

An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.

▲ 455455/hr@obra
6.1
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

HunxByts/GhostTrack

Useful tool to track location or mobile number

▲ 368368/hrHunxByts · GhostTrack · Useful@HunxByts
6.1
viral
GitHubai3h ago

mksglu/context-mode

Context window optimization for AI coding agents. Sandboxes tool output (98% reduction), persists session memory, and enforces routing across 17 platforms via MCP + hooks.

▲ 362362/hrContext · Sandboxes · MCP@mksglu
6.1
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

pablostanley/yoinks

yoink any video from your terminal. no shady ads.

▲ 361361/hr@pablostanley
6.0
viral
GitHubai3h ago

earendil-works/pi

AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI

▲ 298298/hrLLM · API · TUI@earendil-works
5.7
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

Friedrich-M/UniMate

[SIGGRAPH Asia 2026] UniMate: One Unified Model to Animate Diverse Skeletons

▲ 217217/hrFriedrich · UniMate · SIGGRAPH@Friedrich-M
5.4
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

tile-ai/tilelang

Domain-specific language designed to streamline the development of high-performance GPU/CPU/Accelerators kernels

▲ 163163/hrDomain · GPU · CPU@tile-ai
5.4
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

cursor/plugins

Cursor plugin specification and official plugins

▲ 150150/hrCursor@cursor
5.2
viral
HNother11h ago

Pi 1.0

▲ 882💬 295122/hr@sergiotapia
5.1
viral
GitHubtech3h ago

firebase/firebase-ios-sdk

Firebase SDK for Apple App Development

▲ 112112/hrFirebase · SDK · Apple@firebase
4.6
viral
HNai1d ago

Gemini 4 Argon

▲ 1,646💬 1,12869/hrGemini · Argon@bradleyg223
4.2
viral
HNother15h ago

Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

▲ 459💬 16746/hrClef · Open@jasondavies
4.1
viral
HNother8h ago

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

▲ 166💬 9044/hrSeveral · Linux@luispa
3.9
viral
HNother10h ago

The death of web development education

▲ 182💬 13636/hr@ibobev
3.9
viral
HNother14h ago

Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

▲ 262💬 26436/hrGit · SHA@chmaynard
3.9
viral
HNother20h ago

StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

▲ 533💬 13735/hrStreetComplete@Snowly
3.9
viral
HNother18h ago

Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026

▲ 338💬 39135/hrMicron · CEO · Memory@speckx
3.9
viral
HNother11h ago

Pi Durable

▲ 276💬 3434/hrDurable@paulsmith
3.8
viral
HNgeopolitics20h ago

Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant

▲ 361💬 32931/hrReturning@rbanffy
3.7
viral
HNother11h ago

Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles

▲ 149💬 14429/hrAutomatic · Transmission@rafaelc
3.6
viral
HNother15h ago

RIP, vector database

▲ 291💬 7828/hrRIP@razin
3.6
viral
HNother16h ago

Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones

▲ 248💬 20326/hrCops · Bypass · Automatic@speckx
3.5
viral
HNother11h ago

SvelteKit 3

▲ 157💬 5824/hrSvelteKit@sampsn
3.3
viral
HNother16h ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

▲ 167💬 17820/hr@whoishiring
3.3
viral
HNother18h ago

How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026

▲ 236💬 12119/hrRust@trickypr
3.2
viral
HNother15h ago

Red Hat being phased out of existence?

▲ 183💬 10319/hrRed · Hat@amcclure
3.2
viral
HNtech17h ago

Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

▲ 212💬 8718/hrCloudflare@elffjs
3.2
viral
HNai18h ago

FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks

▲ 200💬 15018/hrFTC · OpenAI · Anthropic@dgellow
3.2
viral
HNother16h ago

Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi

▲ 174💬 9917/hrFigma · MCP@thdr
3.1
viral
HNai13h ago

Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

▲ 108💬 11716/hrVote · Hacker@stabbles
3.0
viral
HNother16h ago

Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers

▲ 184💬 2915/hrVarious · Projects · Hidden@nkw
3.0
viral
HNother10h ago

Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

▲ 95💬 1714/hrUsing · Opus@benbreen
2.9
viral
HNother11h ago

ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy

▲ 85💬 3613/hrArXiv · Updated · Rate@50kIters
2.9
viral
HNai21h ago

GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design

▲ 174💬 10213/hrGPT · Synopsys · Frontier@giuliomagnifico
2.8
viral
HNother10h ago

CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development

▲ 75💬 1713/hrCSS · Bed · Classless@sea-gold
2.8
viral
HNother13h ago

Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests

▲ 93💬 4212/hrBez · Generating@nerdypepper
2.7
viral
HNother16h ago

RacketCon Is Saturday

▲ 127💬 3611/hrRacketCon@spdegabrielle
2.7
viral
HNother8h ago

Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

▲ 57💬 811/hrFrog · Toad · Increasingly@supermdguy
2.6
viral
HNother5h ago

How Singapore's government-run dating service works

▲ 17💬 810/hrSingapore@danielfoster
2.6
viral
HNother16h ago

Context Language Models

▲ 121💬 2710/hrContext · Language · Models@emersonmacro
2.6
viral
HNother12h ago

Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life

▲ 87💬 510/hrOxygen@gumby
2.5
viral
HNtech8h ago

Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video

▲ 23💬 459/hrApple@mikelgan
2.5
viral
HNother2d ago

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings

▲ 249💬 969/hrSurprisingly@ibobev
2.4
viral
HNai10h ago

Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia

▲ 57💬 88/hrJanus · GGUF · Vulkan@Maverick617
2.4
viral
HNother2d ago

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

▲ 226💬 1038/hrEdge · Functions · Firecracker@jbott
2.4
viral
HNother12h ago

Effect 4.0

▲ 53💬 338/hrEffect@stevefan1999
2.3
viral
HNother1d ago

Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes

▲ 82💬 1687/hrSuits · Better · Tech@orphereus
2.3
viral
HNother2d ago

Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

▲ 191💬 967/hrLaunch · Magnitude · S25@anerli
2.2
viral
HNother15h ago

Lightweight PDF parser with layout, tables, formulas and bounding boxes

▲ 73💬 77/hrLightweight · PDF@beatrizalmeidaf
2.2
viral
HNai9h ago

Aweb – Communication for AI Agents

▲ 28💬 206/hrAweb · Communication · Agents@gurjeet
2.2
viral
HNai16h ago

Identity Management for Agentic AI [pdf] (2025)

▲ 70💬 236/hrIdentity · Management · Agentic@cgeier
2.2
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HNother16h ago

How to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your sending domain

▲ 71💬 276/hrSPF · DKIM · DMARC@spy888
2.1
viral
HNother10h ago

Show HN: Rhun, an open-source code editor written in assembly

▲ 39💬 156/hrRhun@vladcodes
2.1
viral
HNother4h ago

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

▲ 4💬 26/hrDeepSeek · Harness · Desktop@Kuyawa
2.1
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HNother14h ago

ParadeDB Search Performance Improvements

▲ 61💬 96/hrParadeDB · Search · Performance@craigkerstiens
2.1
viral
HNother1d ago

Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields

▲ 185💬 116/hrHalfspace · IDE@luu
2.0
viral
HNother7h ago

A fifth of Swiss Alpine ice has vanished in five years

▲ 24💬 05/hrSwiss · Alpine@Teever
2.0
viral
HNother4h ago

Creatine may help build muscle even without exercise, researchers find

▲ 6💬 45/hrCreatine@gradus_ad
1.9
viral
HNother5h ago

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

▲ 12💬 15/hrNazi · Germany@xqcgrek2
1.9
viral
HNother8h ago

Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators

▲ 21💬 35/hrButterflies@gmays
1.8
viral
HNother16h ago

Polyedergarten: Garden of Paper Polyhedron Models

▲ 52💬 64/hrPolyedergarten · Garden · Paper@isaacimagine
1.7
viral
HNother8h ago

2026 International Utility Locate Rodeo

▲ 19💬 34/hrInternational · Utility · Locate@K7PJP
1.6
viral
HNgeopolitics8h ago

Personal Computing 2.0: It's time for a personal computing revolution

▲ 14💬 53/hrPersonal · Computing@raybb
1.6
viral
HNother4h ago

Scientists explain how a 300 TeV photon could reach Earth

▲ 4💬 13/hrScientists · TeV · Earth@EA-3167
1.4
viral
HNfinance13h ago

The GPU Black Market That Washington Can't Shut Down

▲ 25💬 43/hrGPU · Black · Market@ilreb
1.4
viral
HNother17h ago

Turbo Haskell

▲ 35💬 23/hrTurbo · Haskell@pjmlp
1.3
viral
HNother11h ago

FLUX 3 Image

▲ 19💬 22/hrFLUX · Image@minimaxir
1.3
viral
HNother8h ago

DoGBench: The first user-facing docs generation benchmark. No model scores >50%

▲ 9💬 32/hrDoGBench@prithvi2206
1.2
viral
HNother9h ago

Griffin: The First Human Interaction Model

▲ 10💬 32/hrGriffin · Human · Interaction@smusamashah
1.2
viral
HNai8h ago

OpenAI has a LOT of work to do if they think Luna can compete with Jev

▲ 9💬 32/hrOpenAI · LOT · Luna@AnthusAI
1.1
viral
HNai11h ago

Kcc, a C compiler built solo with an LLM on $100/month boot Linux kernel

▲ 12💬 62/hrKcc · LLM · Linux@temo_pacheco
1.0
viral
HNtech10h ago

TurboNotes: Local-first Markdown notes, Turbo Pascal like looks, saves to GitHub

▲ 11💬 01/hrTurboNotes · Local · Markdown@vadepaysa
1.0
viral
HNother11h ago

Now That's an Impurity Story

▲ 11💬 01/hrImpurity · Story@dcminter
0.9
viral
HNother9h ago

Pi v1.0.0

▲ 7💬 21/hr@bjornroberg
0.9
viral
HNother8h ago

MonoCode: GUI for Coding Agents

▲ 5💬 41/hrMonoCode · GUI · Coding@handfuloflight
0.9
viral
HNai9h ago

Sites in ChatGPT

▲ 4💬 61/hrSites · ChatGPT@polvi
0.9
viral
HNgeopolitics14h ago

Breaking the Cipher of the Napoleonic war briefing, unread for 217 years

▲ 14💬 01/hrCipher · Napoleonic@theanonymousone
0.7
viral
HNother11h ago

Your folder structure has two jobs, but only does one

▲ 7💬 01/hr@alwaysDrafting