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Common Ground · Nightly Ledger

Trending on 23 September 2026

· rebuilt 12:09 UTC · 21 of 21 sources answered

Self-check 7 of 7 checks passed · rubric v1

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
Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center App Store · Mastodon · Techmeme Mastodon 39 shares · App Store US #1 · App Store DE #15 · Techmeme #14 2026-09-23 1
Hayden Panettiere Google News · Reddit · Wikipedia Wikipedia es 12,840 views · Wikipedia en 113.7k views · Wikipedia pt 2,814 views · Wikipedia de 8,002 views · Wikipedia fr 5,349 views · Google News #25 · Reddit #5 2026-09-14 1
‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees Hacker News · Mastodon Mastodon 69 shares · Hacker News 649 points 2026-09-23 1
bitcoin CoinGecko · Google Trends Google Trends CA 200+ searches · CoinGecko #7 2026-09-23 1
Claude Opus 5.5 Hacker News · Product Hunt Hacker News 1,602 points · Hacker News 308 points · Product Hunt #7 2026-09-23 1
angry anderson Google Trends · Mastodon Google Trends AU 50,000+ searches · Mastodon 8 uses 2026-09-23 1
DOJ defends White House media ban, urges court to reject lawsuit App Store · Google News Google News #3 · App Store US #21 2026-09-23 1
trump canada Google Trends · Reddit Google Trends CA 1,000+ searches · Reddit #25 2026-09-23 1
Presley Gerber Google News · Wikipedia Wikipedia en 113.1k views · Wikipedia es 4,422 views · Google News #26 2026-09-22 2
Jaxson Dart Google News · Wikipedia Wikipedia en 87,116 views · Google News #27 2026-09-23 1
tahar rahim Google Trends · Wikipedia Google Trends FR 5,000+ searches · Wikipedia fr 8,326 views 2026-09-23 1
linke Google Trends · Wikipedia Google Trends DE 1,000+ searches · Wikipedia de 9,097 views 2026-09-22 2

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. ionq stock US 500+ searches
  2. melania trump US 500+ searches
  3. dana bash US 500+ searches
  4. panthers depth chart US 200+ searches
  5. jonathan brooks US 500+ searches
  6. policía US 200+ searches
  7. ryan clark US 200+ searches
  8. cruise ship US 200+ searches

Wikipedia

Wikipedia — most-read articles (Wikimedia Pageviews API)

300 signals · as of 2026-09-22

  1. Lizzie Borden en 679.4k views
  2. 2026 Asian Games en 188.4k views
  3. Aileen Wuornos en 176.1k views
  4. Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story en 170.8k views
  5. Resident Evil (2026 film) en 166.9k views
  6. Cindy Crawford en 160.2k views
  7. India at the 2026 Asian Games en 137.9k views
  8. Jameis Winston en 135.2k views

Hacker News

Hacker News — front page (official API)

30 signals

  1. Jev in 25 Lines of Python 249 points
  2. GPT-6 Sol and Luna 1,592 points
  3. The darker side of being a doctor 109 points
  4. Claude Opus 5.5 1,602 points
  5. Z80 REPL 7 points
  6. QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer 1 points
  7. Transit rewards 165 points
  8. OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 683 points

Bluesky

Bluesky — trending topics (public AppView)

25 signals

  1. Trump threatens to demolish Kennedy Center 1,775 posts
  2. Trump attacks Kaitlan Collins 358 posts
  3. Bizarre school assembly stories 333 posts
  4. Users share 'My 9 Animes' lists 3,701 posts
  5. Eggers to direct Romeo and Juliet 860 posts
  6. Trump addresses UN General Assembly 6,820 posts
  7. Trump bans CNN, MS NOW, Politico 81,918 posts
  8. Collins bribery inquiry reports 3,110 posts

Mastodon

Mastodon — trending tags and links (mastodon.social)

40 signals

  1. ExtravagantSongsOrPoems 465 uses
  2. MeerMittwoch 59 uses
  3. TuneTuesday 6 uses
  4. singinthechanges 5 uses
  5. CatsAndDogsDebate 2 uses
  6. SeaWednesday 21 uses
  7. ミリオン14th_day2 731 uses
  8. TextureTuesday 5 uses

Google News

Google News — top stories (RSS, US edition)

30 signals

  1. Trump tells U.N. he could ‘annihilate’ Iran but expects a deal after the midterm elections #1
  2. ‘Xi Jinping’s got stature’: Trump’s China summit challenge #2
  3. DOJ defends White House media ban, urges court to reject lawsuit #3
  4. Hurricane Polo grows into powerful Category 5 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast. See its path. #4
  5. Trump signs US-Denmark-Greenland agreement to bolster Arctic security after prolonged tensions #5
  6. Poll: Most voters agree the 2026 midterms are all about Trump — and they disapprove #6
  7. ICE officer in Texas shooting was recruit not using a body camera #7
  8. Tropical Sea Turtle Lays Eggs on Southern California Beach #8

Reddit

Reddit — r/popular (Atom feed)

25 signals

  1. Unsure what class to main for Forever? Allow me to pick it for you from my magical Taco Bell Sorting Hat #1
  2. You get $5 million, but you have to permanently change your first name to a food. What are you choosing? #2
  3. Women say “the bar is on the floor”, but men say dating has never been harder. What's going on? #3
  4. Found in now ex-coworkers desk. Condoms with zip ties and some type of basket reed holding it together. We used gloves to handle it. No smell. We work at an engineering office #4
  5. Hayden Panettiere Cause of Death Revealed as Toxic Effects of Fentanyl and More; Death Ruled an Accident #5
  6. What's the weirdest angle your cat was ever in? #6
  7. Someone is vandalizing the murals that kids painted during a street art event #7
  8. Update: ex who broke my heart years ago messaged me saying she’s dying #8

GitHub

GitHub — new repositories by stars (search API)

10 signals

  1. NandhaKishorM/laya 18,942 stars
  2. tamaratran/fast-jev-compaction 6,471 stars
  3. zai-org/ZCode 6,470 stars
  4. mizorewww/laya-mlx 5,755 stars
  5. jaredpalmer/kev 5,206 stars
  6. jev-chat/jev-chat-jarvis 4,986 stars
  7. TianyuCodings/NanoJev 2,068 stars
  8. bespokelabsai/nimble 1,665 stars

GitHub Trending

GitHub — trending repositories today (the trending page)

17 signals

  1. anthropics/financial-services 438 stars today
  2. google/ax 2,305 stars today
  3. davila7/claude-code-templates 64 stars today
  4. BuilderIO/agent-native 609 stars today
  5. obra/superpowers 528 stars today
  6. dream-num/univer 255 stars today
  7. Open-Dev-Society/OpenStock 832 stars today
  8. agent-substrate/substrate 245 stars today

Hugging Face

Hugging Face — trending models (Hub API)

20 signals

  1. convaiinnovations/laya 0 downloads
  2. Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 28,407 downloads
  3. prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf 2.8M downloads
  4. XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B 39,009 downloads
  5. abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF 350.7k downloads
  6. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash 570.9k downloads
  7. Comfy-Org/Qwen-Image-2.1 2.2M downloads
  8. Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B 6.9M downloads

Lobsters

Lobsters — hottest stories (JSON feed)

25 signals

  1. Plain-text files are at risk 30 points
  2. No Sloptober 54 points
  3. That About Wraps It Up for Stock Mac UI 38 points
  4. The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want 7 points
  5. Looking forward to Git 2.56 - and 3.0 82 points
  6. Fearless SIMD v1.0 is here 60 points
  7. Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake 6 points
  8. Jev-powered autocorrection 10 points

DEV

DEV — top articles of the day (Forem API)

30 signals

  1. Why the Best Software Advice Is the Hardest to Follow 27 reactions
  2. We All Have a "Serious Work" AI and a "Just Vibing" AI. When Did That Happen? 41 reactions
  3. The Grand Unifying Architecture of Frontend 8 reactions
  4. The swarm that kept coming back 18 reactions
  5. Stop Writing JavaScript To Fix `100vh` On Mobile 10 reactions
  6. What Nobody Is Using in Your Google Cloud Projects, and What It Costs 2 reactions
  7. Native Drag and Drop Meets Cross-Device Continuity 5 reactions
  8. Laravel Is Not As Heavy As You Think 25 reactions

Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow — hot questions (Stack Exchange API)

30 signals

  1. How to add TaskToken to existing JSON object when executing a callback function in AWS Step Functions? 0 score
  2. Start C# app in ubuntu from .desktop vs starting from command line 0 score
  3. youtube_player_flutter not working on iOS — what is the best alternative? 0 score
  4. Understanding std::chrono file time differences 0 score
  5. How to keep "direct" initialization errors ? Is it possible? 0 score
  6. How can I implement a random dice roll system with different outcomes? -7 score
  7. What is the best approach for processing very large DWG/DXF files programmatically? -7 score
  8. Does PolarDB for MySQL support tiered storage for monthly partitions? -3 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. Alexandria by Firecrawl #1
  2. Naise AI #2
  3. Solid #3
  4. Pactto #4
  5. Jev State #5
  6. ToneBird #6
  7. Claude Opus 5.5 #7
  8. AgentScore #8

Techmeme

Techmeme — front page (RSS)

15 signals

  1. Carnegie China: China passed the US as the top destination for elite AI talent in 2025, rising from 2022's 27.1% share to 40.6%; the US fell from 46.4% to 34.2% (Claudia Chong/The Information) #1
  2. The UK CMA proposes rules requiring Google and Android OEMs to offer search choice screens on first use and via yearly prompts, new AI assistant rules, and more (Steve Dent/Engadget) #2
  3. A Facebook co-founder proposes creating an "Office of AI Supervision" to embed teams inside frontier AI labs, with a three-year term to avoid regulatory capture (Chris Hughes/Financial Times) #3
  4. Gallup survey of 37 countries: in 34, positive AI sentiment outweighed the negative; 90%+ of people in China and 66%+ in Nigeria say AI will improve daily life (Damien Cave/New York Times) #4
  5. Portuguese surveillance drone maker Tekever raised $580M ed by UC Investments at a $6.4B valuation, after securing a UK MOD contract worth £400M over 10 years (Henrique Almeida/Bloomberg) #5
  6. Anthropic reported disrupting a Beijing-aligned operation to monitor religious leaders and diaspora communities, including a DC-based advocacy group for Tibet (Richard Gere/Wall Street Journal) #6
  7. Analysis: 30 Chinese tech stocks with the largest overseas revenue exposure returned 36% YTD, outperforming the 8% return from domestically dependent peers (Bloomberg) #7
  8. Survey: US public perception of data centers has sharply deteriorated since January, with 54% viewing them as bad for the environment, as local opposition rises (Brian Kennedy/Pew Research Center) #8

arXiv

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

30 signals

  1. Flash-dLLM: IO-Aware KV Caching and Parallel Decoding for Fast, Memory-Efficient Diffusion LLMs #1
  2. A Decentralized Partially Observable Team Decision Methodology with Delayed Information Sharing #2
  3. Agensh: Scaling Organizational Intelligence to 1,024 Agents #3
  4. SpeakerMem-R1: Speaker-Centered Dual-Track Memory for Multi-Party Dialogue #4
  5. CliffCompaction: Cost-Efficient Compaction for Long-Horizon Coding Agents #5
  6. SWE-Serve: Benchmarking Agentic Engineering For Production Inference Serving #6
  7. A2M: Trace-Optimized Agent Hijacking in the MCP Ecosystem #7
  8. Grow the Harness, Not the Context: From Strategy-Free Scaffolds to Reusable Specialist Agents #8

App Store

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

50 signals

  1. Muse from Meta US #1
  2. ChatGPT US #2
  3. Vinted: Pre-loved marketplace US #3
  4. StoryReel: Drama Shorts & TV US #4
  5. PineDrama - Short Dramas US #5
  6. Google Gemini US #6
  7. Depop - Buy & Sell Clothes US #7
  8. TikTok Pro - Events US #8

Steam

Steam — top sellers (store featured-categories API)

10 signals

  1. Steam Frame #1
  2. Steam Frame #2
  3. WARDOGS #3
  4. Graveyard Keeper 2 #4
  5. The Grave Deal #5
  6. Steam Frame Ergonomic Accessories Kit #6
  7. CONTROL Resonant #7
  8. CONTROL Resonant #8

CoinGecko

CoinGecko — trending searches (public API)

15 signals

  1. Pudgy Penguins #1
  2. Edel #2
  3. NEAR Protocol #3
  4. MESSIER #4
  5. Zcash #5
  6. Uniswap #6
  7. Bitcoin #7
  8. Meteora #8

Polymarket

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

20 signals

  1. Dota 2: Team Nemesis vs Conventus Stellarum - Game 2 Winner 870.7k USD in 24 h
  2. Will the US confirm that aliens exist by September 30? 567.1k USD in 24 h
  3. St. Tropez: Murphy Cassone vs Clement Tabur 551.5k USD in 24 h
  4. Will Sarah Huckabee Sanders win the 2028 Republican presidential nomination? 484.4k USD in 24 h
  5. Will Shakhtar Donetsk win the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship? 427.3k USD in 24 h
  6. LoL: Solary vs ZSK (BO1) - World Star Challengers Invitational Group D 360.0k USD in 24 h
  7. Counter-Strike: QUAZAR vs Misa Esports (BO3) - European Pro League Series 9 Playoffs 336.3k USD in 24 h
  8. Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by December 31? 323.7k USD in 24 h

Who is reading this

On 22 September 2026 the edge counted 240 requests to this page and its machine editions: 107 browsers · 83 search crawlers · 12 AI retrieval bots · 5 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 2026-09-22T00:00:00Z to 2026-09-22T23:59:59Z; 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 22 September 2026
The countries the edge attributed the most requests to, on the day this page speaks about
Country Requests
US 134
FR 62
CN 9
BR 7
SG 6
PH 3
AR 2
DE 2
GB 2
RU 2

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 22 September 2026
The most active named bots, by requests
Bot Class Requests 2xx Other status
Bingbot search crawlers 49 49 0
Applebot search crawlers 32 32 0
bot other bots 32 32 0
OAI-SearchBot AI retrieval bots 12 12 0
ChatGPT-User AI user fetches 5 4 1
Googlebot search crawlers 1 1 0
YandexBot search crawlers 1 1 0
crawler other bots 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/2026-09-23.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/2026-09-23

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.