Adoption

22 technologies, three public signals, recomputed every day. Installs show who is actually using something; Wikipedia and Hacker News show who is paying attention. When the two split, that is the story.

TodayOctober 7, 2026Agent stackProtocol adoption outpaces model growthMCP and AI API SDKs climb as install velocity decouples from model hype, signaling a move toward stable integration layers.Read today's post

Rewind: the board, day by day

Press play or drag the dial to watch momentum move across the last 10 days. Each bar is one trend; 1× means no change.

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4 of 21 trends are climbing; SpaceX Starship leads at 1.57×

Momentum is a typical day (median) of the last 7 divided by a typical day of the 28 before, averaged across every signal with enough data. 1× means no change. Rings mark each signal.

Data through npm 10/05, Wikipedia 10/06, HN 10/06. Source: npm downloads API, Wikimedia pageviews, Hacker News search.

5 of 7 developer tools are being installed faster than they are being read about

Across: attention momentum (Wikipedia readers and Hacker News stories). Up: install momentum (npm). Both on log scales; the 1× lines split the corners.

Data through npm 10/05, Wikipedia 10/06, HN 10/06. Source: npm downloads API, Wikimedia pageviews, Hacker News search.

SpaceX Starship draws the most Wikipedia readers against its own normal: 1.57× over the last week

Each cell is one day's readers divided by that trend's four-week typical day. Orange runs hot, dark runs cold.

Data through npm 10/05, Wikipedia 10/06, HN 10/06. Source: Wikimedia pageviews API, user agents only.

OpenAI Codex installs are 116× a year ago; 9 of 10 tools at least doubled

Average daily npm installs, week by week for a year. Each panel has its own scale; the corner figure compares the last four weeks with the same four weeks a year earlier.

Data through npm 10/05, Wikipedia 10/06, HN 10/06. Source: npm downloads API.

Every number

All 22 trends, October 7, 2026. Per-day figures are a typical (median) day of the last week. * = base too small to count (under 1,000 installs, 100 readers or 1 story a day).
SpaceX StarshipSpace1.57×Breakout––2,1651.57×0.10.23×*0
PasskeysWeb platform1.3×Climbing1.1M1.3×921.04×*0.10.36×*0
AI API SDKsAI agents1.19×Climbing21M1.19×––––0
Model Context ProtocolAI agents1.17×Climbing12M1.27×1,6631.11×7.71.14×0
Claude CodeAI coding1.14×Steady2.2M0.99×––8.41.3×0
OpenAI CodexAI coding1.13×Steady3.9M1.11×992.5×*5.01.15×0
Small modular reactorsEnergy1.12×Steady––5271.12×0.0n/a*0
WebGPUWeb platform1.11×Steady1.7M1.17×1371.06×1.11.6×*0
StarlinkSpace1.1×Steady––2,1951.1×0.71.43×*0
AI agentsAI agents1.08×Steady782k1.26×9620.81×141.24×0
Bun runtimeWeb platform1.06×Steady708k1.08×2441.03×1.01.22×*0
Solid-state batteriesEnergy1.06×Steady––4271.06×0.00×*0
Heat pumpsEnergy1.05×Steady––5021.05×0.00×*0
Gemini CLIAI coding1.02×Steady66k1.02×––0.0n/a*0
Local LLMsAI agents1×Steady192k1.13×6340.9×0.71.11×*0
Vibe codingAI coding0.95×Steady––1,7551.16×0.90.77×0
eVTOL air taxisSpace0.91×Steady––1810.91×0.00×*0
Humanoid robotsRobots0.81×Cooling––3010.81×0.91.04×*0
Quantum computingDevices0.71×Cooling––1,7000.93×1.70.55×0
RobotaxisRobots0.7×Cooling––1750.7×0.92.2×*0
Smart glassesDevices0.68×Cooling––1530.68×0.71×*0
Vehicle-to-gridEnergyn/aNot enough data––540.87×*0.00×*0

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Method and sources

Every trend gets up to three free, daily signals. Installs: npm registry downloads for the packages named on each trend page (developer adoption; it counts CI and mirrors too, so it measures direction, not people). Attention: English Wikipedia readers per day, human agents only, and Hacker News stories with the term in the title. For each signal we divide a typical day (the median) of the last 7 complete days by a typical day of the 28 days before. Medians keep one launch-day spike from carrying a whole week; both windows are whole weeks, so weekend dips sit equally in both. Momentum is the geometric mean of the signals that clear a minimum base. npm reports some days as zero for every package at once; we treat those as missing.

The column is drafted by a free language model from the day's computed facts only, and is published only if every number in it matches those facts; otherwise the computed paragraphs stand alone. Theme labels come from Jev (or its Cloudflare Clef fallback, as noted) choosing from a fixed list of ten.

    Stages: Breakout 1.5× and up, Climbing 1.15×, Steady 0.87× to 1.15×, Cooling below. Raw data: /api/trends/2026-10-07.json.