The Tec N Trend 100October 6, 2026

The 100

ChatGPT is the most-read technology at 58k readers a day; Superintelligence climbed 78 places in 30 days. Superintelligence rose from No. 97 to No. 19. Sodium-ion battery fell furthest, from No. 77 to No. 98. 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 5, 2026. Momentum: a typical day last week against the four weeks before. Arrows: change against 7 days earlier.

1	=	ChatGPT	AI models & apps	58k	0.81×	1	1
2	▲1	Claude	AI models & apps	5,519	1.04×	2	125
3	▼1	Hugging Face	AI building blocks	5,292	0.52×	10	48
4	=	Large language model	AI building blocks	3,912	1×	3	5
5	▲1	Nintendo Switch 2	Devices	3,112	0.82×	4	4
6	▲1	DeepSeek	AI models & apps	2,902	0.91×	11	6
7	▲1	AI slop	AI building blocks	2,812	1.05×	5	13
8	▲2	Bitcoin	Security & money	2,512	1.01×	6	3
9	▲2	Perplexity	AI models & apps	2,500	0.88×	8	2
10	▼5	AGI	AI building blocks	2,452	0.49×	23	17
11	▲7	Rust	Web & software	2,392	1.52×	15	24
12	▲3	Wi-Fi 7	Web & software	2,135	2.1×	13	34
13	▲1	Starlink	Space	2,102	1.11×	7	7
14	▼1	Data centers	Chips & compute	1,974	0.88×	9	49
15	▲1	Generative AI	AI building blocks	1,935	0.95×	20	117
16	▲1	Grok	AI models & apps	1,868	0.9×	18	10
17	▲3	Quantum computing	Chips & compute	1,835	0.96×	14	9
18	▲1	Waymo	Robots & mobility	1,797	0.82×	19	22
19	▲15	Superintelligence	AI building blocks	1,786	2.6×	97	88
20	▼11	Tesla Cybercab	Robots & mobility	1,730	0.53×	25	109
21	▲4	Vibe coding	AI building blocks	1,674	1.2×	27	8
22	▼10	Roman Space Telescope	Space	1,566	0.53×	22	97
23	▲3	Model Context Protocol	AI building blocks	1,565	1.14×	26	19
24	▼2	Transformer	AI building blocks	1,541	0.94×	29	–
25	▲3	Starship	Space	1,541	1.87×	24	18
26	▼2	Cryptocurrency	Security & money	1,508	1.05×	21	11
27	▼6	James Webb Space Telescope	Space	1,490	0.9×	16	16
28	▼5	AI bubble	AI building blocks	1,425	0.88×	17	100
29	=	Qwen	AI models & apps	1,417	1.12×	28	65
30	▼3	Apple silicon	Chips & compute	1,393	0.68×	45	21
31	=	Microsoft Copilot	AI models & apps	1,299	0.89×	35	14
32	▼2	Cursor	AI models & apps	1,295	0.86×	12	–
33	▼1	RAG	AI building blocks	1,252	0.93×	31	20
34	▲1	Raspberry Pi	Chips & compute	1,205	1.02×	30	25
35	▼2	AI agents	AI building blocks	1,190	0.81×	62	121
36	=	Hallucination	AI building blocks	1,119	0.88×	40	35
37	=	Drones	Robots & mobility	1,089	0.92×	36	23
38	▲1	Tesla Cybertruck	Robots & mobility	1,044	0.88×	33	26
39	▲3	Deepfake	Security & money	1,034	1.28×	39	28
40	▼2	Steam Frame	Devices	1,016	0.76×	48	–
41	=	Artemis program	Space	993	1.01×	38	15
42	▼2	Bluesky	Web & software	967	0.92×	34	12
43	▲1	5G	Web & software	957	0.85×	41	27
44	▲2	Kubernetes	Web & software	942	1.06×	44	36
45	▲9	Neuralink	Devices	909	1.23×	56	38
46	▲2	GPU	Chips & compute	889	0.92×	51	37
47	▲2	Lidar	Robots & mobility	881	0.97×	46	39
48	▼1	Lithium-ion batteries	Energy	880	0.93×	42	29
49	▲3	Gemini	AI models & apps	872	1.07×	47	31
50	▼7	Kimi	AI models & apps	868	0.82×	32	–
51	▼1	Tesla Optimus	Robots & mobility	862	0.87×	53	43
52	▼1	AI alignment	AI building blocks	856	0.67×	88	90
53	=	2 nm chips	Chips & compute	814	0.73×	79	61
54	▲2	CRISPR	Biotech & materials	809	1.26×	54	40
55	▼10	Next.js	Web & software	779	0.65×	37	87
56	▲1	Local LLMs (Ollama)	AI building blocks	708	0.9×	61	–
57	▼2	3D printing	Biotech & materials	708	0.92×	50	41
58	▲1	Stable Diffusion	AI models & apps	673	0.99×	55	42
59	▲3	Sora	AI models & apps	672	0.92×	66	92
60	▼2	TypeScript	Web & software	672	0.9×	43	64
61	▲2	RISC-V	Chips & compute	659	0.87×	58	44
62	▼2	Nuclear power	Energy	655	0.86×	63	53
63	▲2	Ethereum	Security & money	644	0.92×	59	32
64	▲3	Fusion power	Energy	638	1.05×	60	47
65	▲4	Falcon 9	Space	636	1.34×	49	56
66	=	Steam Deck	Devices	627	0.98×	57	33
67	▼3	6G	Web & software	622	0.84×	52	67
68	▼7	Graphene	Biotech & materials	609	0.88×	64	52
69	▼1	Post-quantum cryptography	Security & money	605	0.93×	65	58
70	=	Midjourney	AI models & apps	565	1.11×	76	45
71	▲1	Llama	AI models & apps	551	1.04×	72	60
72	▼1	Space Launch System	Space	549	1.2×	69	59
73	▲1	Prediction market	Security & money	537	1.05×	75	96
74	▲2	Virtual reality	Devices	527	0.92×	73	51
75	▼2	Ransomware	Security & money	526	1.01×	89	73
76	▲2	HBM	Chips & compute	515	1.02×	67	84
77	▲3	Augmented reality	Devices	515	0.96×	80	54
78	▲1	Fediverse	Web & software	507	1.12×	74	74
79	▲2	Tokamaks	Energy	501	1.29×	70	66
80	▼5	Meta smart glasses	Devices	500	0.82×	68	–
81	▲3	Heat pumps	Energy	486	1.06×	71	68
82	=	Foldable phone	Devices	479	0.66×	116	113
83	▲2	Small modular reactor (SMR)	Energy	475	1.1×	81	50
84	▼1	LFP batteries	Energy	473	0.94×	78	55
85	▼8	Self-driving car	Robots & mobility	468	0.84×	83	62
86	▲2	TPU	Chips & compute	466	1.19×	84	80
87	▼1	Stablecoin	Security & money	431	0.85×	82	30
88	▲1	EUV lithography	Chips & compute	430	0.88×	99	123
89	▲3	Solid-state batteries	Energy	429	1.14×	87	69
90	▼3	Apple Vision Pro	Devices	420	0.66×	104	85
91	=	Electric vehicle	Robots & mobility	417	0.99×	86	72
92	▲3	Brain-computer interface	Devices	411	1.08×	92	75
93	▲7	Amazon Leo (Project Kuiper)	Space	410	1.24×	96	–
94	▲7	NPU	Chips & compute	393	1.05×	101	83
95	▼1	Tesla Autopilot	Robots & mobility	393	0.84×	108	93
96	=	Zero-knowledge proof	Security & money	390	0.97×	100	77
97	▼4	WebAssembly	Web & software	381	1×	93	86
98	▼8	Sodium-ion battery	Energy	377	0.86×	77	57
99	▼2	New Glenn	Space	374	1.13×	90	79
100	▼2	Cultured meat	Biotech & materials	368	1×	91	102

Bubbling under 30

Zig 359/day · 1.11×
Humanoid robot 350/day · 0.81×
Hyperloop 344/day · 0.85×
GitHub Copilot 332/day · 0.98×
Mirror life 323/day · 1.36×
mRNA vaccine 315/day · 1.09×
Diffusion model 307/day · 0.99×
CRDTs 292/day · 0.98×
Lab-grown diamond 290/day · 0.86×
Matter 279/day · 1.04×
Solana 277/day · 0.82×
Bun 249/day · 1.03×
Carbon capture and storage 237/day · 0.93×
Reasoning models 234/day · 1.01×
Vera C. Rubin Observatory 218/day · 0.83×
Robotaxi 213/day · 0.71×
CBDC 210/day · 0.92×
Smart glasses 201/day · 0.67×
Neuromorphic computing 194/day · 1.03×
eVTOL 186/day · 0.9×
Meta Quest 184/day · 0.94×
Perovskite solar cell 180/day · 0.83×
Molten-salt reactors 176/day · 1.04×
Zero trust 157/day · 0.94×
Svelte 135/day · 0.97×
WebGPU 133/day · 1.06×
Xenotransplantation 130/day · 0.71×
AT Protocol 126/day · 0.98×
Reusable launch vehicle 125/day · 0.89×
Green hydrogen 118/day · 0.87×

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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