The Tec N Trend 100October 1, 2026

The 100

ChatGPT is the most-read technology at 60k readers a day; Superintelligence climbed 68 places in 30 days. Superintelligence rose from No. 97 to No. 29. Falcon 9 fell furthest, from No. 45 to No. 69. 4 entries are new to the 100 this month. Ranked by English Wikipedia readers on a typical day (median) over 28 days.

Rank by English Wikipedia readers on a typical day (28-day median), through September 30, 2026. Momentum: a typical day last week against the four weeks before. Arrows: change against 7 days earlier.

1	=	ChatGPT	AI models & apps	60k	0.99×	1	1
2	=	Hugging Face	AI building blocks	6,194	0.62×	12	46
3	=	Claude	AI models & apps	5,467	1.17×	2	125
4	▲1	Large language model	AI building blocks	3,912	1.05×	3	5
5	▼1	AGI	AI building blocks	3,650	0.54×	23	20
6	=	Nintendo Switch 2	Devices	3,131	0.93×	4	3
7	▲2	DeepSeek	AI models & apps	2,902	1.21×	10	6
8	▼1	AI slop	AI building blocks	2,805	1×	5	13
9	▼1	Bitcoin	Security & money	2,591	1.25×	6	4
10	▲2	Perplexity	AI models & apps	2,444	1.03×	8	2
11	▼1	Tesla Cybercab	Robots & mobility	2,220	0.65×	35	110
12	▲1	Data centers	Chips & compute	1,998	0.94×	9	50
13	▲2	Starlink	Space	1,996	1.34×	7	7
14	▲5	Rust	Web & software	1,978	1.56×	16	23
15	▼1	Wi-Fi 7	Web & software	1,961	1.3×	15	35
16	▲1	Generative AI	AI building blocks	1,939	0.98×	19	117
17	▼1	Grok	AI models & apps	1,908	0.87×	17	10
18	=	Waymo	Robots & mobility	1,889	0.88×	18	22
19	▼8	Roman Space Telescope	Space	1,836	0.49×	28	97
20	=	Quantum computing	Chips & compute	1,835	1.02×	14	9
21	▲3	Transformer	AI building blocks	1,561	1.05×	29	–
22	▲5	Vibe coding	AI building blocks	1,558	1.2×	25	8
23	▼2	James Webb Space Telescope	Space	1,538	0.91×	21	17
24	▲1	Model Context Protocol	AI building blocks	1,529	1.08×	24	18
25	▼3	AI bubble	AI building blocks	1,515	0.88×	13	106
26	▼3	Cryptocurrency	Security & money	1,495	0.96×	20	11
27	▼1	Apple silicon	Chips & compute	1,393	0.86×	44	21
28	▲1	Starship	Space	1,383	1.51×	22	15
29	▲25	Superintelligence	AI building blocks	1,363	2.4×	97	89
30	=	Qwen	AI models & apps	1,361	1.11×	26	67
31	▼3	Cursor	AI models & apps	1,315	0.91×	11	–
32	=	Microsoft Copilot	AI models & apps	1,287	1.05×	33	12
33	▼2	RAG	AI building blocks	1,252	1.07×	30	19
34	▼1	Raspberry Pi	Chips & compute	1,208	1.1×	31	25
35	=	AI agents	AI building blocks	1,190	1.09×	61	121
36	▼2	Hallucination	AI building blocks	1,123	0.92×	39	34
37	▼1	Drones	Robots & mobility	1,089	0.95×	36	24
38	▼1	Tesla Cybertruck	Robots & mobility	1,060	0.95×	32	26
39	▲3	Steam Frame	Devices	1,016	1.06×	48	–
40	▲4	Deepfake	Security & money	994	1.14×	38	30
41	▼2	Bluesky	Web & software	982	0.9×	34	16
42	▼1	Artemis program	Space	977	1.16×	37	14
43	=	5G	Web & software	957	0.97×	40	27
44	▲1	Kubernetes	Web & software	912	1.23×	42	36
45	▼5	Next.js	Web & software	912	0.71×	86	86
46	▼8	Kimi	AI models & apps	907	0.81×	27	–
47	▲3	GPU	Chips & compute	889	1.05×	51	37
48	▼2	Lithium-ion batteries	Energy	886	1.03×	41	29
49	▼2	Lidar	Robots & mobility	882	0.95×	47	38
50	▼2	Tesla Optimus	Robots & mobility	878	0.93×	54	42
51	▼2	AI alignment	AI building blocks	856	0.83×	89	95
52	▼1	Gemini	AI models & apps	849	1.42×	46	28
53	▼1	2 nm chips	Chips & compute	814	0.98×	78	59
54	▲2	Neuralink	Devices	803	1.15×	50	39
55	▲4	CRISPR	Biotech & materials	780	1.47×	53	41
56	▼3	3D printing	Biotech & materials	738	0.95×	49	40
57	=	Local LLMs (Ollama)	AI building blocks	712	1.11×	62	–
58	▼3	TypeScript	Web & software	690	0.9×	43	64
59	▲9	Sora	AI models & apps	672	1.09×	65	94
60	▼2	Stable Diffusion	AI models & apps	671	0.94×	55	43
61	▲3	Nuclear power	Energy	665	1.14×	63	51
62	▲1	RISC-V	Chips & compute	659	1.03×	56	44
63	▲4	Ethereum	Security & money	645	1.23×	59	31
64	▲5	Graphene	Biotech & materials	636	0.98×	64	49
65	▼5	6G	Web & software	633	0.9×	52	66
66	=	Fusion power	Energy	631	0.99×	58	53
67	▼5	Steam Deck	Devices	626	0.97×	57	33
68	▼3	Post-quantum cryptography	Security & money	620	0.93×	66	60
69	▼8	Falcon 9	Space	615	0.91×	45	57
70	▲6	Midjourney	AI models & apps	549	1.15×	75	45
71	=	Space Launch System	Space	539	1.05×	67	56
72	▲1	Llama	AI models & apps	532	1.11×	70	58
73	▲2	Virtual reality	Devices	529	1.19×	72	52
74	=	Ransomware	Security & money	526	1.09×	93	74
75	▼5	Prediction market	Security & money	520	0.97×	71	99
76	▲3	Meta smart glasses	Devices	518	1.06×	68	–
77	▼5	HBM	Chips & compute	515	0.87×	60	84
78	▼1	Self-driving car	Robots & mobility	512	0.92×	84	62
79	▲7	Augmented reality	Devices	501	1.14×	79	54
80	=	Fediverse	Web & software	499	1×	74	76
81	▼3	Tokamaks	Energy	491	1.14×	73	68
82	▼1	Foldable phone	Devices	479	0.8×	116	112
83	▼1	Heat pumps	Energy	479	1.15×	69	65
84	▼1	LFP batteries	Energy	475	1.13×	77	55
85	=	Small modular reactor (SMR)	Energy	469	1.3×	80	47
86	▲1	TPU	Chips & compute	446	1.26×	81	80
87	▼3	Stablecoin	Security & money	442	0.88×	83	32
88	▲3	EUV lithography	Chips & compute	430	0.95×	98	123
89	=	Apple Vision Pro	Devices	420	0.96×	105	88
90	▲3	Solid-state batteries	Energy	413	1.14×	87	69
91	▼1	Electric vehicle	Robots & mobility	411	1.02×	85	72
92	▼4	Sodium-ion battery	Energy	401	0.86×	76	61
93	▲8	Amazon Leo (Project Kuiper)	Space	395	0.96×	96	–
94	▲4	Brain-computer interface	Devices	394	1.06×	92	71
95	▼3	Tesla Autopilot	Robots & mobility	393	0.96×	108	91
96	▼2	WebAssembly	Web & software	393	1.07×	94	85
97	=	Zero-knowledge proof	Security & money	390	1.03×	99	77
98	▲4	NPU	Chips & compute	385	1.15×	102	83
99	▼3	New Glenn	Space	377	0.98×	91	79
100	▼5	Cultured meat	Biotech & materials	376	1.01×	90	100

Bubbling under 30

Humanoid robot 367/day · 0.94×
Zig 349/day · 0.94×
Hyperloop 348/day · 1.04×
GitHub Copilot 332/day · 0.92×
Diffusion model 306/day · 0.99×
mRNA vaccine 306/day · 1.07×
Lab-grown diamond 303/day · 0.93×
Solana 298/day · 1.09×
CRDTs 292/day · 1.16×
Matter 285/day · 0.96×
Mirror life 285/day · 0.89×
Robotaxi 245/day · 0.76×
Bun 245/day · 0.92×
Carbon capture and storage 239/day · 0.89×
Reasoning models 235/day · 0.95×
Vera C. Rubin Observatory 233/day · 0.86×
CBDC 213/day · 0.95×
Smart glasses 212/day · 0.84×
eVTOL 197/day · 0.88×
Neuromorphic computing 186/day · 1.04×
Perovskite solar cell 183/day · 0.85×
Meta Quest 182/day · 1.15×
Molten-salt reactors 171/day · 1.02×
Zero trust 158/day · 0.94×
Xenotransplantation 147/day · 0.71×
Svelte 135/day · 0.88×
Reusable launch vehicle 132/day · 0.74×
WebGPU 127/day · 1.08×
AT Protocol 127/day · 0.92×
Green hydrogen 118/day · 0.86×

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. The 100 ranks a fixed list of about 130 technologies by English Wikipedia readers, so it measures attention, not use; ranks for past dates are computed from the same Wikipedia history.

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