The Tec N Trend 100October 5, 2026

The 100

ChatGPT is the most-read technology at 58k readers a day; Superintelligence climbed 77 places in 30 days. Superintelligence rose from No. 97 to No. 20. Cursor fell furthest, from No. 11 to No. 32. 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 4, 2026. Momentum: a typical day last week against the four weeks before. Arrows: change against 7 days earlier.

1	=	ChatGPT	AI models & apps	58k	0.84×	1	1
2	=	Hugging Face	AI building blocks	5,474	0.52×	12	48
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	▲1	Nintendo Switch 2	Devices	3,131	0.82×	4	3
6	▲2	DeepSeek	AI models & apps	2,902	1.04×	10	6
7	=	AI slop	AI building blocks	2,805	1.05×	5	13
8	▼3	AGI	AI building blocks	2,527	0.5×	23	18
9	▲1	Bitcoin	Security & money	2,522	1.01×	6	4
10	▲1	Perplexity	AI models & apps	2,444	0.9×	8	2
11	▲7	Rust	Web & software	2,239	1.55×	15	24
12	▲3	Wi-Fi 7	Web & software	2,135	2.1×	13	34
13	▲1	Starlink	Space	2,089	1.24×	7	7
14	▼1	Data centers	Chips & compute	1,989	1.03×	9	49
15	▲1	Generative AI	AI building blocks	1,929	0.95×	20	117
16	▲1	Grok	AI models & apps	1,885	0.87×	18	10
17	▲3	Quantum computing	Chips & compute	1,835	0.98×	14	9
18	▲1	Waymo	Robots & mobility	1,809	0.84×	19	22
19	▼10	Tesla Cybercab	Robots & mobility	1,781	0.56×	28	108
20	▲16	Superintelligence	AI building blocks	1,773	2.4×	97	88
21	▲4	Vibe coding	AI building blocks	1,670	1.2×	26	8
22	▼10	Roman Space Telescope	Space	1,640	0.52×	25	96
23	▲3	Model Context Protocol	AI building blocks	1,543	1.08×	24	19
24	▼1	Transformer	AI building blocks	1,541	1×	29	–
25	▼4	James Webb Space Telescope	Space	1,502	0.91×	17	16
26	▼2	Cryptocurrency	Security & money	1,495	1.05×	21	11
27	▲1	Starship	Space	1,493	2.4×	22	17
28	▼6	AI bubble	AI building blocks	1,425	0.87×	16	103
29	▼2	Apple silicon	Chips & compute	1,393	0.68×	45	21
30	=	Qwen	AI models & apps	1,361	1.13×	27	65
31	=	Microsoft Copilot	AI models & apps	1,299	0.94×	35	14
32	▼3	Cursor	AI models & apps	1,295	0.85×	11	–
33	▼1	RAG	AI building blocks	1,252	1.07×	31	20
34	▼1	Raspberry Pi	Chips & compute	1,216	1×	30	25
35	▼1	AI agents	AI building blocks	1,185	0.82×	62	121
36	▼1	Hallucination	AI building blocks	1,119	0.88×	40	35
37	=	Drones	Robots & mobility	1,089	0.94×	36	23
38	=	Tesla Cybertruck	Robots & mobility	1,051	0.89×	33	26
39	▲4	Deepfake	Security & money	1,027	1.24×	39	28
40	▼1	Steam Frame	Devices	1,016	0.88×	50	–
41	▲1	Artemis program	Space	987	1.01×	38	15
42	▼1	Bluesky	Web & software	967	0.92×	34	12
43	▲1	5G	Web & software	957	0.87×	41	27
44	▲2	Kubernetes	Web & software	939	1.06×	44	36
45	▲5	GPU	Chips & compute	889	0.95×	51	37
46	▼6	Kimi	AI models & apps	888	0.74×	32	–
47	=	Lithium-ion batteries	Energy	883	1×	42	29
48	=	Lidar	Robots & mobility	881	0.97×	47	39
49	▲3	Gemini	AI models & apps	872	1.39×	46	31
50	▼1	Tesla Optimus	Robots & mobility	865	0.88×	53	43
51	▲3	Neuralink	Devices	860	1.08×	54	38
52	▼1	AI alignment	AI building blocks	856	0.67×	89	90
53	=	2 nm chips	Chips & compute	814	0.73×	79	61
54	▼9	Next.js	Web & software	806	0.66×	37	87
55	▲2	CRISPR	Biotech & materials	802	1.29×	55	40
56	▼1	3D printing	Biotech & materials	716	0.94×	49	41
57	▲1	Local LLMs (Ollama)	AI building blocks	712	1.03×	61	–
58	▼2	TypeScript	Web & software	676	0.88×	43	64
59	=	Stable Diffusion	AI models & apps	673	0.94×	56	42
60	▲1	Sora	AI models & apps	672	0.95×	67	92
61	▲1	RISC-V	Chips & compute	659	0.87×	58	44
62	▼2	Nuclear power	Energy	655	1×	63	53
63	▲1	Ethereum	Security & money	651	1.03×	59	32
64	▲3	Fusion power	Energy	638	1.06×	60	47
65	▲4	Falcon 9	Space	635	1.66×	48	56
66	▼1	Steam Deck	Devices	626	0.92×	57	33
67	▼1	6G	Web & software	622	0.86×	52	66
68	▼5	Graphene	Biotech & materials	609	0.89×	64	52
69	▼1	Post-quantum cryptography	Security & money	605	0.94×	66	57
70	=	Midjourney	AI models & apps	560	1.12×	76	45
71	▲2	Llama	AI models & apps	550	1.04×	73	60
72	=	Space Launch System	Space	546	1.23×	69	58
73	▼2	Prediction market	Security & money	528	1.02×	72	99
74	▲1	Virtual reality	Devices	527	1.01×	74	51
75	▼1	Ransomware	Security & money	523	1.01×	90	73
76	▲1	HBM	Chips & compute	520	1.01×	65	84
77	▲4	Augmented reality	Devices	515	1.27×	80	54
78	▲1	Fediverse	Web & software	504	1.12×	75	77
79	▼3	Meta smart glasses	Devices	500	0.82×	68	–
80	=	Tokamaks	Energy	491	1.26×	70	68
81	▲3	Heat pumps	Energy	486	1.08×	71	67
82	=	Foldable phone	Devices	479	0.68×	116	112
83	▼5	Self-driving car	Robots & mobility	477	0.88×	83	62
84	▼1	LFP batteries	Energy	476	1×	78	55
85	=	Small modular reactor (SMR)	Energy	469	1.1×	81	50
86	▲1	TPU	Chips & compute	456	1.23×	84	79
87	▼1	Stablecoin	Security & money	432	0.91×	82	30
88	▲1	EUV lithography	Chips & compute	430	0.9×	99	123
89	▲3	Solid-state batteries	Energy	429	1.23×	87	69
90	▼2	Apple Vision Pro	Devices	420	0.68×	104	85
91	=	Electric vehicle	Robots & mobility	412	0.99×	86	72
92	▲9	Amazon Leo (Project Kuiper)	Space	410	1.3×	96	–
93	▲3	Brain-computer interface	Devices	408	1.08×	91	75
94	▲6	NPU	Chips & compute	393	1.04×	101	83
95	▼1	Tesla Autopilot	Robots & mobility	393	0.85×	108	93
96	▼3	WebAssembly	Web & software	391	1.01×	94	86
97	▼2	Zero-knowledge proof	Security & money	390	0.96×	100	76
98	▼8	Sodium-ion battery	Energy	382	0.87×	77	59
99	▼2	New Glenn	Space	374	1.29×	92	80
100	▼2	Cultured meat	Biotech & materials	368	1×	88	101

Bubbling under 30

Humanoid robot 359/day · 0.91×
Zig 353/day · 1.08×
Hyperloop 344/day · 0.94×
GitHub Copilot 324/day · 0.96×
Mirror life 323/day · 1.28×
Diffusion model 310/day · 0.97×
mRNA vaccine 306/day · 1.09×
Lab-grown diamond 296/day · 0.86×
CRDTs 292/day · 1.08×
Matter 279/day · 1.08×
Solana 277/day · 0.82×
Bun 249/day · 1.01×
Carbon capture and storage 238/day · 0.98×
Reasoning models 235/day · 0.97×
Vera C. Rubin Observatory 219/day · 0.87×
Robotaxi 216/day · 0.73×
CBDC 210/day · 0.92×
Smart glasses 198/day · 0.67×
Neuromorphic computing 194/day · 0.98×
eVTOL 189/day · 0.89×
Meta Quest 184/day · 0.96×
Perovskite solar cell 182/day · 0.82×
Molten-salt reactors 172/day · 1.06×
Zero trust 157/day · 0.95×
Svelte 135/day · 0.96×
Xenotransplantation 132/day · 0.76×
WebGPU 131/day · 1.06×
Reusable launch vehicle 128/day · 0.95×
AT Protocol 126/day · 0.98×
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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