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Common Ground · Nightly Ledger

Trending on 11 September 2026

· rebuilt 11:48 UTC · 21 of 21 sources answered

Self-check 6 of 7 checks passed · rubric v1

The run did not pass its own rubric and published anyway, as the method requires — the file is what the sources gave, and the failed checks are these: labels_sane (1 suspicious topic labels: 11/09).

Every morning a machine reads what the open web says it is looking at — search trends, the most-read encyclopedia articles, the link aggregators, the fediverse, the day’s headlines and the newest repositories — and keeps what several of them say at once. Each source keeps its own label and its own count; the crossing is done by a token rule that is written down, not by a model that guesses.

Rising this week

Terms that build over weeks rather than spiking for a morning, counted across link aggregators, news, code repositories and preprints. The figure is the last seven days; the pace beside it compares those days with the three weeks before them.

All watched terms →Rising16Established17Quiet2

Converging now

Every topic that more than one source was looking at, and which sources those were. The row is the topic, the column is the source, and a mark is that source carrying it — so a row’s length is exactly the claim the ledger makes about it.

A mark is drawn larger the higher the topic stands in that source’s OWN list, in three steps. Ranks are not compared across sources: a list of three hundred and a list of twenty-five are different rulers, so each column is weighed against itself alone. The number in the gutter is how many sources carried the topic, which is also how many marks its row has.
The converging topics, as a table
Topics carried by two or more independent sources on this day, with the signal each source recorded
Topic Platforms What each source recorded First seen Days hot
interest rates Google News · Google Trends · Polymarket Google Trends GB 100+ searches · Google News #15 · Polymarket 2.0M USD in 24 h · Polymarket 1.6M USD in 24 h · Polymarket 1.1M USD in 24 h · Polymarket 627.9k USD in 24 h · Polymarket 416.3k USD in 24 h 2026-09-11 1
Houthis seize Mokha port Bluesky · Google News Bluesky 564 posts · Google News #3 2026-09-11 1
Bayeux Tapestry exhibition opens Bluesky · Wikipedia Bluesky 378 posts · Wikipedia en 73,730 views 2026-09-11 1
11/09 Google Trends · Polymarket Google Trends BR 500+ searches · Polymarket 638.3k USD in 24 h 2026-09-11 1
flávio bolsonaro lula Google Trends · Wikipedia Google Trends BR 10,000+ searches · Wikipedia pt 2,456 views 2026-09-11 1
Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft Hacker News · Lobsters Hacker News 689 points · Lobsters 72 points 2026-09-11 1
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Polymarket · Wikipedia Wikipedia pt 3,786 views · Polymarket 355.2k USD in 24 h 2026-09-11 1
Alexander Zverev Polymarket · Wikipedia Wikipedia en 52,133 views · Wikipedia de 8,388 views · Polymarket 477.9k USD in 24 h 2026-09-11 1
Practical Magic 2 Google News · Wikipedia Wikipedia en 49,807 views · Google News #23 2026-09-11 1
Aryna Sabalenka Google News · Wikipedia Wikipedia en 56,800 views · Wikipedia en 51,358 views · Wikipedia en 44,431 views · Google News #27 · Google News #29 2026-09-11 1

A topic is counted as converging when it surfaces on at least two of the independent sources read this morning. Labels are matched by a disclosed token rule — case folded, diacritics stripped, hashtags split, stopwords dropped, then exact token, token overlap above the committed threshold, or containment — never by a language model. Score is the number of platforms carrying a topic, then rank within each of them; the label shown is the one from the highest-priority source.

By source

What each source said on its own, before any crossing. A source that did not answer is recorded as unavailable with the reason — never quietly dropped, and never filled in from a neighbour.

Google Trends

Google Trends — Daily Search Trends (RSS)

100 signals

  1. ted lasso - season 4 US 1,000+ searches
  2. arnold schwarzenegger maria shriver family photo US 200+ searches
  3. howard lutnick US 500+ searches
  4. npr US 200+ searches
  5. temperature US 200+ searches
  6. how many people died on 9/11 US 200+ searches
  7. mta US 500+ searches
  8. did aaron donald retire US 10,000+ searches

Wikipedia

Wikipedia — most-read articles (Wikimedia Pageviews API)

300 signals · as of 2026-09-10

  1. Barry Melrose en 238.9k views
  2. Drew Lock en 235.0k views
  3. Charlie Kirk en 223.6k views
  4. Killing of the Clancy children en 207.2k views
  5. Assassination of Charlie Kirk en 199.6k views
  6. Elizabeth Holmes en 162.8k views
  7. September 11 attacks en 158.5k views
  8. Mike McFarland en 151.4k views

Hacker News

Hacker News — front page (official API)

30 signals

  1. The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative 35 points
  2. Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light 98 points
  3. RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree 15 points
  4. Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin 1,105 points
  5. So you want to use OpenRouter? 188 points
  6. Claude is no longer available for minors 71 points
  7. Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables 579 points
  8. Working with Git Worktrees in Magit 63 points

Bluesky

Bluesky — trending topics (public AppView)

25 signals

  1. 9/11 25th anniversary remembrance 4,072 posts
  2. Diesel price hits $6 a gallon 634 posts
  3. Trump predicts Iran war ends after election 7,241 posts
  4. Trump pledges $5,000 GOP dividend 15,400 posts
  5. Bayeux Tapestry exhibition opens 378 posts
  6. GOP holds Dallas midterm convention 10,358 posts
  7. Trump 9/11 rescue claim 12,534 posts
  8. RFK Jr Dallas speech remarks 1,002 posts

Mastodon

Mastodon — trending tags and links (mastodon.social)

40 signals

  1. mow4 0 uses
  2. 70sMoviesTaughtMe 418 uses
  3. FensterFreitag 128 uses
  4. warntag 2 uses
  5. JukeboxFridayNight 185 uses
  6. InternationalSandwichASong 3 uses
  7. WindowFriday 66 uses
  8. VendrediLecture 62 uses

Google News

Google News — top stories (RSS, US edition)

30 signals

  1. Empty seats, socialism and Trump dominate the Republican midterm convention #1
  2. Live updates: America marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11 #2
  3. Yemen's Houthis seize strategic Red Sea port of Mokha #3
  4. Trump reveals why $5,000 checks can wait until after the midterms #4
  5. Lindsay Clancy juror can’t shake feeling jury failed by not reaching verdict #5
  6. Capitol agenda: Trump tells Republicans to vote or ‘go to hell’ #6
  7. Missouri Supreme Court finds Hoskins ‘disingenuous’ about 2022 congressional map use decision #7
  8. Tourists should skip Kauai for now as it recovers from Hurricane Lowell, officials say #8

Reddit

Reddit — r/popular (Atom feed)

25 signals

  1. I bought this at the Blue Springs State Park gift shop...Its in 3DDD #1
  2. Hayley Williams said "F*** ICE" and "Free Palestine" at her concert last night in Oakland, California. #2
  3. DLSS 5 breaking containment #3
  4. Milky Way time lapsed #4
  5. Dishonored #5
  6. Dishwasher is literally rotting after 4 years. #6
  7. Beshear on Mitch McConnell: "I have still heard absolutely nothing from the senator & it's been 3 months now, which is unacceptable. If he's not there on Monday, he owes an explanation to the American people." #7
  8. I’m allergic to cats and moved into my bfs house with 2 being told they are independent and don’t like people. Can someone please explain why this is happening? #8

GitHub

GitHub — new repositories by stars (search API)

10 signals

  1. ashemag/human-atlas 3,175 stars
  2. openai/NavierStokesAndEuler 1,751 stars
  3. sdli1995/dlssg_for_sm86 1,627 stars
  4. vinzdg/codenotch 1,426 stars
  5. EverettFish/holo-card-studio 1,407 stars
  6. yang0/handraw-style 1,309 stars
  7. Edge0-AI/Edge0 1,194 stars
  8. donvito/codex-astra-luna-orchestrator 958 stars

GitHub Trending

GitHub — trending repositories today (the trending page)

16 signals

  1. ayghri/i-have-adhd 3,882 stars today
  2. bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view 1,762 stars today
  3. nab138/iloader 36 stars today
  4. melgarafael/DeskcommCRM 126 stars today
  5. vastsa/PI-Desktop 624 stars today
  6. armory3d/armorpaint 72 stars today
  7. alsk1992/CloddsBot 277 stars today
  8. nashsu/llm_wiki 142 stars today

Hugging Face

Hugging Face — trending models (Hub API)

20 signals

  1. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash 75,774 downloads
  2. openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B 67,550 downloads
  3. XHToken/Spark-X2.5-4B 17,712 downloads
  4. Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B 7.6M downloads
  5. ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF 682.2k downloads
  6. nex-agi/Nex-N2.5-mini 3,121 downloads
  7. nex-agi/Nex-N2.5-Pro 12,260 downloads
  8. Lightricks/LTX-2.5 1.7M downloads

Lobsters

Lobsters — hottest stories (JSON feed)

25 signals

  1. A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either) 73 points
  2. Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft 72 points
  3. Forgejo 16.0.4 has a critical security bug fix (RCE - Remote Code Execution) 35 points
  4. It's not the YAML spec's fault, but 37 points
  5. Fastly Speedtest Test 19 points
  6. Xteink X4 Pro review 40 points
  7. What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? 38 points
  8. Soft-deprecating re.match() 31 points

DEV

DEV — top articles of the day (Forem API)

30 signals

  1. Paradox between Sharing your Accomplishments and Ego 58 reactions
  2. Show Me the Article You're Most Proud Of And I'll Read Every Single One of Them 29 reactions
  3. Admit it, you have a favorite AI (just like you have a favorite coworker) 14 reactions
  4. Down Is Kind, Slow Is Fatal: Circuit Breakers and the Three Links Around Them 24 reactions
  5. The Contract Discovery Bottleneck 6 reactions
  6. The Internship That Taught Me to Read Between the Lines of a Job Offer 24 reactions
  7. My Agents Never Get Tired. I Do: On Satisficing 12 reactions
  8. The Symmetry of State: Why Flutter Deserves context.value and context.state 1 reactions

Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow — hot questions (Stack Exchange API)

30 signals

  1. Building a CLI wizard that consumes JSON Schema and exposes project-local env vars in the current shell 1 score
  2. Anylogic 'PedChangeLevel' Pedestrian Going Down Stairs Animation Moving in Reverse -1 score
  3. Why does subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True) with shlex.quote() break on Windows? 0 score
  4. Creating a virtual monitor in code to transmit the processed image to an arduino -3 score
  5. j'checkout' a revision without editing it, so `@` points to the target revision 0 score
  6. How to surround a variable with a Live Template? 0 score
  7. How to copy development branches from Git repository to another 1 score
  8. Looking for LUA hacks that might lead to a string being interpretted differently -6 score

PyPI

PyPI — most-downloaded packages of the last month (top-pypi-packages)

20 signals · as of 2026-09-01

  1. boto3 3206.7M downloads
  2. packaging 2253.4M downloads
  3. typing-extensions 1846.2M downloads
  4. certifi 1822.7M downloads
  5. idna 1801.0M downloads
  6. urllib3 1793.9M downloads
  7. requests 1695.9M downloads
  8. charset-normalizer 1661.8M downloads

Product Hunt

Product Hunt — newest products (Atom feed)

25 signals

  1. easyspecs.ai #1
  2. Devin Voice #2
  3. Loqua #3
  4. Raycast 2.0 #4
  5. Cline Desktop App #5
  6. TIM PG #6
  7. Moji #7
  8. Wisry #8

Techmeme

Techmeme — front page (RSS)

15 signals

  1. Source: former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time advisor to OpenAI (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal) #1
  2. OpenAI says it's no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon, where participants use AI to solve research problems, following criticism of "slop mathematics" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider) #2
  3. Source and draft press release: the Trump admin will lend $100M to Africell, Africa's only US-owned telecom company, aiming to counter Huawei's Africa expansion (Alexandra Alper/Reuters) #3
  4. Sources: Moonshot AI told investors it topped $1B ARR in August, up from $300M in June, driven by its Kimi K3 release; it aims to hit $2B ARR by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg) #4
  5. A US judge dismisses two lawsuits against LinkedIn over its scanning of browser extensions, saying users voluntarily expose data by downloading extensions (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica) #5
  6. Ayar Labs, which is developing a way to link AI chips directly with optical connections, raised $150M, an extension of its $500M Series E in March 2026 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) #6
  7. Garry Tan says "I would do nothing" about China's AI distillation and urges the industry to focus on current AI risks instead of doomsday-style extinction fears (CNBC) #7
  8. Polymarket names Warren Jenson its first CFO as the company aims to grow in the US; Jenson served as finance chief of Amazon, EA, NBC, and most recently Nielsen (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal) #8

arXiv

arXiv — newest preprints in cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG and cs.SE (API)

30 signals

  1. GPU-CFR: 80x Faster Counterfactual Regret Minimization by Compiling the Game to Static Dataflow and CUDA Graph Replay #1
  2. General Quantification of Covariate and Concept Shifts #2
  3. Data Scarcity and Model Sparsity: Mixtures-of-Experts Overfit More to Repeated Data #3
  4. Can Edge-Deployable Vision-Language Models Identify Species? #4
  5. Generative Marketing Mix Modeling: A Causal Inference Framework Linking GEO and GEM to Business Impact #5
  6. Distance generalization in transformers: why bother with positional encoding? #6
  7. Artificial Id: Drive and Persistent Alignment in Agentic AI #7
  8. From Protocols to Evidence: Bounded Claims for AI in Service of the Common Good #8

App Store

App Store — top free apps, US and DE (Apple Marketing Tools RSS)

50 signals

  1. ChatGPT US #1
  2. Vinted: Pre-loved marketplace US #2
  3. Netflix US #3
  4. Muse from Meta US #4
  5. TikTok Pro - Events US #5
  6. Polymarket: Trade Live Sports US #6
  7. Google Gemini US #7
  8. ESPN Fantasy Sports & More US #8

Steam

Steam — top sellers (store featured-categories API)

10 signals

  1. WARDOGS #1
  2. WARDOGS - Supporter Edition #2
  3. Halloween: The Game #3
  4. Drag'n Wash #4
  5. The Blood of Dawnwalker #5
  6. No Man's Sky #6
  7. Welcome to Elderfield #7
  8. Steam Deck #8

CoinGecko

CoinGecko — trending searches (public API)

15 signals

  1. STONK #1
  2. Hunter Biden's Laptop #2
  3. Pons #3
  4. Raydium #4
  5. Pearl #5
  6. Meteora #6
  7. Bitcoin #7
  8. Zcash #8

Polymarket

Polymarket — markets by 24-hour volume (Gamma API)

20 signals

  1. Counter-Strike: FURIA vs G2 (BO3) - FISSURE PLAYGROUND Playoffs 2.0M USD in 24 h
  2. Will there be no change in Fed interest rates after the September 2026 meeting? 2.0M USD in 24 h
  3. Will Abigail Spanberger win the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination? 1.6M USD in 24 h
  4. Will the Fed increase interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting? 1.6M USD in 24 h
  5. Will the Fed decrease interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting? 1.1M USD in 24 h
  6. Will Stade Rennais FC 1901 win on 2026-09-11? 638.3k USD in 24 h
  7. Will the Fed increase interest rates by 50+ bps after the September 2026 meeting? 627.9k USD in 24 h
  8. Will Tom Cotton win the 2028 Republican presidential nomination? 496.0k USD in 24 h

Who is reading this

On 10 September 2026 the edge counted 237 requests to this page and its machine editions: 63 browsers · 127 search crawlers · 14 AI retrieval bots · 0 AI user fetches · 0 AI training crawlers · 33 other bots.

One bar per counted day, oldest on the left, tallest bar = 1,043 requests. A class in the legend washes the others out; nothing moves. Legend totals cover the drawn window, and the table below is the same data, day by day.
The audience, day by day, as a table
Requests to /trending and its machine editions per day, by audience class
Day Edge requests Browsers Search AI retrieval AI user fetch AI training Other bots
2026-10-18 920 326 148 89 6 77 274
2026-10-17 1,043 440 145 80 34 1 343
2026-10-16 811 307 192 81 6 0 225
2026-10-15 702 314 190 76 8 2 112
2026-10-14 569 221 140 87 5 3 113
2026-10-13 422 118 117 78 21 1 87
2026-10-12 674 232 121 88 9 1 223
2026-10-11 498 218 133 68 5 1 73
2026-10-10 437 101 128 76 3 2 127
2026-10-09 491 181 101 67 2 1 139
2026-10-08 584 264 126 55 12 1 126
2026-10-07 631 309 98 42 12 1 169
2026-10-06 681 343 126 65 14 9 124
2026-10-05 367 179 75 30 8 0 75
2026-10-04 387 177 106 19 4 0 81
2026-10-03 993 850 93 21 4 0 25
2026-10-02 690 431 120 32 6 0 101
2026-10-01 442 236 126 36 2 0 42
2026-09-30 279 131 106 14 4 1 23
2026-09-29 716 508 134 20 3 1 50
2026-09-28 615 338 222 25 7 0 23
2026-09-27 289 35 225 3 7 4 15
2026-09-26 330 71 160 12 6 0 81
2026-09-25 246 68 128 39 1 1 9
2026-09-24 183 25 112 13 2 0 31
2026-09-23 238 150 53 17 0 2 16
2026-09-22 240 107 83 12 5 0 33
2026-09-21 289 108 118 53 0 0 10
2026-09-20 285 96 122 35 1 1 30
2026-09-19 181 42 126 5 2 0 6

Cloudflare GraphQL Analytics API, httpRequestsAdaptiveGroups, zone scope, requestSource eyeball, clientRequestPath_like /trending%; window 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z to 2026-09-10T23:59:59Z; unsampled. Classes by self-declared user agent; only the class and the bot name from a fixed table are kept, never the string. Not in this record: referring hosts — referring hosts are not served on this plan (clientRefererHost, measured 2026-09-03).

Where they came from on 10 September 2026
The countries the edge attributed the most requests to, on the day this page speaks about
Country Requests
US 172
SG 46
CN 6
IN 4
RU 3
FR 2
BR 1
IT 1
PH 1
TR 1

The edge's own country attribution, at most ten, by requests. A country is a property of the request, never of a person: no address, session or identifier is read or kept.

Named bots on 10 September 2026
The most active named bots, by requests
Bot Class Requests 2xx Other status
Bingbot search crawlers 123 123 0
bot other bots 30 28 2
OAI-SearchBot AI retrieval bots 10 10 0
PerplexityBot AI retrieval bots 4 0 4
YandexBot search crawlers 3 3 0
spider other bots 3 2 1
Googlebot search crawlers 1 1 0

Bot names come from a fixed classification table in the pipeline; a user agent not in the table is counted only as its class.

For machines

The same day, in the forms a machine reader can use. All of them are static files, built from the archive with the page, so a reader and a crawler never see two different states.

/trending/latest.json
the newest day in full — every source, every signal, the converging topics and the summary
/trending/2026-09-11.json
any committed day by its date, in the same shape, never edited after the morning it was written
/trending/index.json
the archive register — every committed day with its page, its JSON and what converged on it
/trending/feed.xml
RSS, one item per day, with the converging topics as its text
/trending/latest.md
the same day as Markdown, for readers that parse text better than markup
/trending/topics/
the slower half of the ledger — the terms watched over weeks, each with its own page
/trending/topics.json
the whole watchlist in one file: counts per platform and window, status, receipts, and what the discovery run proposed
/llms.txt
where this sits in the house, and what a retrieval agent may do with it
  • Data: CC0 1.0
  • Cadence: rebuilt daily around 06:40 UTC
  • Cite: Frank Bültge, Common Ground — trending ledger, frankbueltge.de/trending/2026-09-11

Method

Every morning the pipeline reads 21 open sources and records what each one declares as trending, with that source’s own label, its own rank and its own count. Labels are reduced to tokens — case folded, diacritics stripped, hashtags split, stopwords dropped — and matched across sources by an exact token, by overlap above a committed threshold, or by one label being contained in another. A topic scores by the number of independent platforms carrying it and then by its rank within each of them, and it is shown under the label of the highest-priority source that carries it. Every day is committed as JSON and never edited afterwards, so first-seen and days-hot are read out of the archive rather than out of a memory.

Method sheet →

No language model writes anything on this page: every label is a source’s own label, every count a source’s own count; the cross-check is a token-matching rule disclosed on the method sheet.

The archive

Every committed day, newest first — 48 so far.