The Tec N Trend 100October 8, 2026

The 100

ChatGPT is the most-read technology at 58k readers a day; Superintelligence climbed 79 places in 30 days. Superintelligence rose from No. 96 to No. 17. Roman Space Telescope fell furthest, from No. 3 to No. 25. 4 entries are new to the 100 this month. Ranked by English Wikipedia readers on a typical day (median) over 28 days.

The 100 as a town

One tower per technology, No. 1 at the back; height is readers on a typical day. Pick what lights up.

The table below lists all 100 with their ranks.

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

1	=	ChatGPT	AI models & apps	58k	0.79×	1	1
2	▲1	Claude	AI models & apps	5,514	0.97×	2	125
3	▼1	Hugging Face	AI building blocks	5,292	0.52×	8	50
4	=	Large language model	AI building blocks	3,949	0.98×	4	5
5	▲1	Nintendo Switch 2	Devices	3,075	0.82×	5	4
6	▲1	DeepSeek	AI models & apps	2,902	0.88×	12	6
7	▲1	AI slop	AI building blocks	2,747	0.95×	7	13
8	▲1	Bitcoin	Security & money	2,490	0.88×	6	3
9	▲5	Rust	Web & software	2,484	1.54×	16	23
10	=	Perplexity	AI models & apps	2,387	0.89×	10	2
11	▲4	Wi-Fi 7	Web & software	2,323	2.1×	14	34
12	▼7	AGI	AI building blocks	2,262	0.49×	24	18
13	=	Starlink	Space	2,113	1.1×	9	8
14	▼2	Data centers	Chips & compute	1,976	0.88×	11	48
15	▲1	Generative AI	AI building blocks	1,931	0.95×	22	117
16	▲1	Grok	AI models & apps	1,847	0.91×	17	10
17	▲12	Superintelligence	AI building blocks	1,842	1.82×	96	89
18	▲2	Quantum computing	Chips & compute	1,776	0.93×	15	7
19	▼1	Waymo	Robots & mobility	1,764	0.82×	19	21
20	▼9	Tesla Cybercab	Robots & mobility	1,687	0.6×	23	109
21	▲1	Vibe coding	AI building blocks	1,683	1.13×	27	9
22	▲2	Model Context Protocol	AI building blocks	1,601	1.09×	26	16
23	▲5	Starship	Space	1,581	1.38×	25	19
24	▼3	Transformer	AI building blocks	1,541	0.93×	29	–
25	▼6	Roman Space Telescope	Space	1,517	0.58×	3	100
26	=	Cryptocurrency	Security & money	1,508	0.95×	21	12
27	▼4	James Webb Space Telescope	Space	1,495	0.92×	18	17
28	▲2	Qwen	AI models & apps	1,472	0.99×	28	63
29	▼4	AI bubble	AI building blocks	1,425	0.88×	20	90
30	▼3	Apple silicon	Chips & compute	1,344	0.68×	43	22
31	▲1	Microsoft Copilot	AI models & apps	1,303	0.86×	34	14
32	▲1	RAG	AI building blocks	1,301	0.92×	31	20
33	▼2	Cursor	AI models & apps	1,265	0.83×	13	–
34	▲1	AI agents	AI building blocks	1,237	0.81×	59	121
35	▼1	Raspberry Pi	Chips & compute	1,205	0.99×	30	25
36	=	Hallucination	AI building blocks	1,113	0.9×	39	35
37	▲3	Deepfake	Security & money	1,067	1.26×	40	28
38	▼1	Drones	Robots & mobility	1,057	0.92×	36	24
39	▼1	Tesla Cybertruck	Robots & mobility	1,034	0.88×	33	26
40	▼1	Steam Frame	Devices	1,016	0.74×	47	–
41	▲1	Artemis program	Space	987	0.94×	38	15
42	▲2	Kubernetes	Web & software	966	1.04×	45	36
43	▼2	Bluesky	Web & software	959	0.94×	35	11
44	▲10	Neuralink	Devices	945	1.19×	57	38
45	▼2	5G	Web & software	941	0.85×	42	27
46	▲1	GPU	Chips & compute	886	0.85×	51	37
47	▲5	Gemini	AI models & apps	882	1.04×	48	32
48	▲1	Lidar	Robots & mobility	881	1.01×	46	39
49	▼1	Lithium-ion batteries	Energy	880	0.93×	44	29
50	▲5	CRISPR	Biotech & materials	859	1.16×	54	40
51	▼5	Kimi	AI models & apps	858	0.88×	32	–
52	▼1	AI alignment	AI building blocks	847	0.67×	89	91
53	▼3	Tesla Optimus	Robots & mobility	828	0.87×	52	43
54	▼1	2 nm chips	Chips & compute	788	0.69×	77	61
55	▼10	Next.js	Web & software	765	0.67×	37	87
56	▲1	Local LLMs (Ollama)	AI building blocks	707	0.89×	62	–
57	▼1	3D printing	Biotech & materials	697	0.89×	49	41
58	▲2	Stable Diffusion	AI models & apps	672	0.98×	53	42
59	▼1	TypeScript	Web & software	665	0.89×	41	64
60	▼1	Sora	AI models & apps	660	0.86×	67	94
61	=	Nuclear power	Energy	655	0.85×	63	53
62	=	RISC-V	Chips & compute	655	0.87×	56	44
63	=	Ethereum	Security & money	644	0.91×	58	33
64	▲5	Falcon 9	Space	635	1.16×	50	58
65	▲1	Fusion power	Energy	623	0.94×	61	47
66	▲1	Steam Deck	Devices	621	0.99×	55	31
67	▼2	6G	Web & software	618	0.9×	60	67
68	▼4	Graphene	Biotech & materials	609	0.92×	64	52
69	▼1	Post-quantum cryptography	Security & money	605	0.93×	65	57
70	=	Midjourney	AI models & apps	565	1.11×	74	45
71	=	Space Launch System	Space	556	1.04×	68	59
72	=	Llama	AI models & apps	551	1.03×	75	60
73	=	Virtual reality	Devices	550	0.92×	71	51
74	▲1	Prediction market	Security & money	541	1.07×	76	88
75	▼1	Ransomware	Security & money	530	1.01×	87	72
76	▲5	Tokamaks	Energy	525	1.08×	69	66
77	▲2	Augmented reality	Devices	524	0.97×	80	55
78	▼1	HBM	Chips & compute	515	1.07×	66	86
79	▲1	Fediverse	Web & software	507	1.13×	73	73
80	▼4	Meta smart glasses	Devices	492	0.8×	70	–
81	▲2	Heat pumps	Energy	488	1.05×	72	68
82	▲3	Small modular reactor (SMR)	Energy	479	1.09×	81	46
83	▲3	TPU	Chips & compute	478	1.15×	85	80
84	=	LFP batteries	Energy	473	0.94×	78	56
85	▼7	Self-driving car	Robots & mobility	467	0.84×	83	62
86	▼4	Foldable phone	Devices	461	0.6×	116	113
87	▲3	Solid-state batteries	Energy	426	1.03×	88	70
88	▼1	Stablecoin	Security & money	422	0.92×	82	30
89	▲5	Brain-computer interface	Devices	417	1.07×	93	75
90	▲1	Electric vehicle	Robots & mobility	417	1×	86	74
91	▼3	EUV lithography	Chips & compute	415	0.86×	100	123
92	▼3	Apple Vision Pro	Devices	411	0.69×	103	84
93	▲5	NPU	Chips & compute	404	0.97×	102	83
94	▲2	WebAssembly	Web & software	381	1×	92	85
95	▼2	Amazon Leo (Project Kuiper)	Space	379	0.93×	95	–
96	▼1	Tesla Autopilot	Robots & mobility	379	0.84×	107	95
97	=	Zero-knowledge proof	Security & money	378	0.92×	97	76
98	▲1	New Glenn	Space	371	1.08×	91	79
99	▼7	Sodium-ion battery	Energy	370	0.86×	79	54
100	=	Cultured meat	Biotech & materials	368	1×	90	102

Bubbling under 30

Zig 366/day · 1.3×
Humanoid robot 345/day · 0.82×
Hyperloop 341/day · 0.84×
Mirror life 334/day · 2.8×
GitHub Copilot 332/day · 0.97×
mRNA vaccine 324/day · 1.01×
Diffusion model 307/day · 1×
CRDTs 296/day · 0.96×
Matter 286/day · 1.04×
Solana 286/day · 0.83×
Lab-grown diamond 284/day · 0.86×
Bun 249/day · 0.98×
Reasoning models 234/day · 1.03×
Carbon capture and storage 227/day · 0.83×
Smart glasses 226/day · 0.72×
Vera C. Rubin Observatory 223/day · 0.91×
CBDC 206/day · 0.88×
Robotaxi 199/day · 0.71×
Neuromorphic computing 198/day · 1.05×
Meta Quest 182/day · 0.93×
eVTOL 182/day · 0.86×
Molten-salt reactors 178/day · 1.04×
Perovskite solar cell 177/day · 0.82×
Zero trust 157/day · 0.96×
WebGPU 136/day · 1.12×
Svelte 133/day · 0.99×
Xenotransplantation 130/day · 0.76×
AT Protocol 127/day · 0.95×
Reusable launch vehicle 123/day · 0.89×
Green hydrogen 118/day · 0.75×

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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