The Tec N Trend 100October 2, 2026

The 100

ChatGPT is the most-read technology at 58k readers a day; Superintelligence climbed 70 places in 30 days. Superintelligence rose from No. 97 to No. 27. Falcon 9 fell furthest, from No. 45 to No. 68. 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 October 1, 2026. Momentum: a typical day last week against the four weeks before. Arrows: change against 7 days earlier.

1	=	ChatGPT	AI models & apps	58k	0.96×	1	1
2	=	Hugging Face	AI building blocks	6,098	0.61×	13	46
3	=	Claude	AI models & apps	5,467	1.09×	2	125
4	=	Large language model	AI building blocks	3,912	1.01×	3	5
5	=	AGI	AI building blocks	3,273	0.53×	23	19
6	=	Nintendo Switch 2	Devices	3,131	0.87×	4	3
7	▲1	DeepSeek	AI models & apps	2,902	1.05×	11	6
8	▼1	AI slop	AI building blocks	2,805	0.99×	5	13
9	=	Bitcoin	Security & money	2,556	1×	6	4
10	▲2	Perplexity	AI models & apps	2,444	0.98×	8	2
11	▲4	Starlink	Space	2,033	1.34×	7	7
12	▼2	Tesla Cybercab	Robots & mobility	2,022	0.62×	33	110
13	=	Data centers	Chips & compute	1,998	1.01×	9	49
14	=	Wi-Fi 7	Web & software	1,988	1.29×	12	34
15	▲4	Rust	Web & software	1,983	1.56×	16	23
16	=	Generative AI	AI building blocks	1,939	0.95×	20	117
17	=	Grok	AI models & apps	1,893	0.87×	17	10
18	=	Waymo	Robots & mobility	1,872	0.82×	18	22
19	▲1	Quantum computing	Chips & compute	1,835	1.02×	15	9
20	▼9	Roman Space Telescope	Space	1,794	0.49×	28	97
21	▲4	Vibe coding	AI building blocks	1,598	1.18×	25	8
22	▲4	Model Context Protocol	AI building blocks	1,543	1.08×	24	18
23	▲1	Transformer	AI building blocks	1,541	1×	29	–
24	▼3	James Webb Space Telescope	Space	1,532	0.89×	19	17
25	▼2	Cryptocurrency	Security & money	1,495	0.99×	21	11
26	▼4	AI bubble	AI building blocks	1,469	0.87×	14	106
27	▲26	Superintelligence	AI building blocks	1,465	2.4×	97	89
28	▲1	Starship	Space	1,416	2.4×	22	15
29	▼2	Apple silicon	Chips & compute	1,393	0.8×	44	21
30	=	Qwen	AI models & apps	1,361	1.13×	26	67
31	▼3	Cursor	AI models & apps	1,310	0.82×	10	–
32	=	Microsoft Copilot	AI models & apps	1,299	1.05×	35	12
33	▼2	RAG	AI building blocks	1,252	1.07×	30	20
34	▼1	Raspberry Pi	Chips & compute	1,205	1.08×	31	25
35	▼1	AI agents	AI building blocks	1,190	1.05×	61	121
36	▼1	Hallucination	AI building blocks	1,123	0.88×	39	35
37	▼1	Drones	Robots & mobility	1,089	0.94×	34	24
38	▼1	Tesla Cybertruck	Robots & mobility	1,060	0.95×	32	26
39	=	Steam Frame	Devices	1,016	0.96×	48	–
40	▲4	Deepfake	Security & money	998	1.13×	38	30
41	=	Artemis program	Space	987	1.18×	37	14
42	▼2	Bluesky	Web & software	977	0.92×	36	16
43	=	5G	Web & software	957	0.9×	40	27
44	▲1	Kubernetes	Web & software	936	1.09×	41	36
45	▼7	Kimi	AI models & apps	903	0.78×	27	–
46	▲4	GPU	Chips & compute	889	0.99×	50	37
47	▼5	Next.js	Web & software	887	0.71×	68	87
48	▼2	Lithium-ion batteries	Energy	883	0.99×	42	29
49	▼2	Lidar	Robots & mobility	882	0.95×	47	38
50	▼2	Tesla Optimus	Robots & mobility	876	0.89×	53	42
51	▼2	AI alignment	AI building blocks	856	0.81×	89	94
52	▼1	Gemini	AI models & apps	849	1.41×	46	28
53	▼1	2 nm chips	Chips & compute	814	0.85×	79	60
54	▲1	Neuralink	Devices	808	1.1×	51	39
55	▲4	CRISPR	Biotech & materials	795	1.42×	52	41
56	▼2	3D printing	Biotech & materials	730	0.95×	49	40
57	=	Local LLMs (Ollama)	AI building blocks	715	1.05×	62	–
58	▼2	TypeScript	Web & software	686	0.9×	43	64
59	▲7	Sora	AI models & apps	672	1.06×	65	93
60	▼2	Stable Diffusion	AI models & apps	671	0.94×	55	43
61	▲2	Nuclear power	Energy	665	1.12×	63	53
62	▼2	RISC-V	Chips & compute	659	1×	56	44
63	▲6	Ethereum	Security & money	645	1.26×	58	31
64	▲3	Fusion power	Energy	633	1.06×	59	50
65	▼1	Steam Deck	Devices	626	0.97×	57	33
66	▼4	6G	Web & software	625	0.87×	54	66
67	▼6	Graphene	Biotech & materials	622	0.91×	64	48
68	▼3	Falcon 9	Space	621	1.3×	45	57
69	▼1	Post-quantum cryptography	Security & money	613	0.94×	66	59
70	▲6	Midjourney	AI models & apps	552	1.18×	76	45
71	▲2	Llama	AI models & apps	541	1.1×	71	58
72	▼1	Space Launch System	Space	539	1.22×	67	56
73	▼1	Ransomware	Security & money	526	1.08×	93	74
74	=	Virtual reality	Devices	524	1.12×	73	51
75	=	HBM	Chips & compute	520	0.9×	60	84
76	▲1	Self-driving car	Robots & mobility	510	0.9×	85	63
77	▼7	Prediction market	Security & money	510	0.95×	72	99
78	▲1	Meta smart glasses	Devices	510	0.98×	69	–
79	▲4	Augmented reality	Devices	509	1.1×	80	54
80	=	Fediverse	Web & software	499	1×	75	76
81	▼3	Tokamaks	Energy	491	1.21×	74	68
82	=	Heat pumps	Energy	479	1.07×	70	65
83	▼2	Foldable phone	Devices	479	0.76×	116	112
84	=	LFP batteries	Energy	476	1.02×	78	55
85	=	Small modular reactor (SMR)	Energy	469	1.3×	81	52
86	▲1	TPU	Chips & compute	450	1.26×	82	79
87	▼1	Stablecoin	Security & money	442	0.89×	84	32
88	▲1	EUV lithography	Chips & compute	430	0.9×	98	123
89	▲1	Apple Vision Pro	Devices	420	0.89×	104	86
90	▲3	Solid-state batteries	Energy	413	1.25×	87	69
91	=	Electric vehicle	Robots & mobility	411	0.99×	86	73
92	▲4	Brain-computer interface	Devices	402	1.04×	92	71
93	▲8	Amazon Leo (Project Kuiper)	Space	395	1.26×	96	–
94	▼2	Tesla Autopilot	Robots & mobility	393	0.96×	108	91
95	▼1	WebAssembly	Web & software	393	1.07×	95	85
96	▲6	NPU	Chips & compute	393	1.11×	101	83
97	▼2	Zero-knowledge proof	Security & money	390	1.02×	99	77
98	▼10	Sodium-ion battery	Energy	390	0.86×	77	61
99	▼1	New Glenn	Space	377	1.28×	91	80
100	▼3	Cultured meat	Biotech & materials	370	0.96×	90	100

Bubbling under 30

Humanoid robot 359/day · 0.94×
Zig 349/day · 1.03×
Hyperloop 348/day · 1.03×
GitHub Copilot 324/day · 0.99×
Diffusion model 306/day · 0.96×
mRNA vaccine 303/day · 1.04×
Lab-grown diamond 301/day · 0.89×
CRDTs 293/day · 1.14×
Solana 292/day · 1.09×
Matter 285/day · 1.08×
Mirror life 285/day · 0.91×
Bun 249/day · 0.92×
Reasoning models 240/day · 0.94×
Robotaxi 240/day · 0.73×
Carbon capture and storage 239/day · 0.98×
Vera C. Rubin Observatory 229/day · 0.86×
CBDC 213/day · 0.92×
Smart glasses 201/day · 0.83×
eVTOL 192/day · 0.89×
Neuromorphic computing 190/day · 1.01×
Meta Quest 184/day · 1.1×
Perovskite solar cell 183/day · 0.87×
Molten-salt reactors 172/day · 0.99×
Zero trust 157/day · 0.95×
Xenotransplantation 143/day · 0.72×
Svelte 135/day · 0.88×
Reusable launch vehicle 132/day · 0.74×
WebGPU 129/day · 1.07×
AT Protocol 126/day · 0.94×
Green hydrogen 120/day · 0.91×

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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