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Common Ground · Nightly Ledger

Trending on 24 September 2026

· rebuilt 12:12 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 grid draws the strongest 14 crossings of this morning; the remaining 3 stand in the table below.
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
vr glasses App Store · Bluesky · Google News · Google Trends · Hacker News Google Trends GB 5,000+ searches · Bluesky 1,268 posts · Hacker News 246 points · Hacker News 429 points · Google News #19 · App Store US #1 · App Store DE #12 2026-09-24 1
thélyson orélien Google Trends · Wikipedia Google Trends CA 200+ searches · Wikipedia fr 18,619 views 2026-09-24 1
Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop Hacker News · Lobsters Hacker News 180 points · Lobsters 37 points 2026-09-24 1
Judge orders Trump White House to restore access to CNN, MS Now and Politico Google News · Mastodon Mastodon 33 shares · Google News #1 2026-09-20 1
OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says Google News · Hacker News Hacker News 99 points · Google News #3 2026-09-24 1
tommy tuberville Google Trends · Reddit Google Trends US 200+ searches · Reddit #13 2026-09-24 1
Google unveils new Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS AI models (GOOG:NASDAQ) App Store · Google News Google News #22 · App Store DE #4 · App Store US #7 2026-09-24 1
brasil Google Trends · Wikipedia Google Trends BR 5,000+ searches · Wikipedia pt 3,507 views 2026-09-05 1
alexandra eala Google Trends · Polymarket Google Trends GB 1,000+ searches · Google Trends CA 1,000+ searches · Google Trends AU 1,000+ searches · Google Trends US 2,000+ searches · Polymarket 265.6k USD in 24 h 2026-09-24 1
Elizabeth Holmes Google News · Wikipedia Wikipedia en 185.0k views · Wikipedia pt 2,625 views · Google News #25 2026-09-24 1
Claude by Anthropic App Store · Techmeme App Store DE #3 · App Store US #12 · Techmeme #14 2026-09-17 1
love hypothesis Google Trends · Wikipedia Google Trends AU 500+ searches · Wikipedia en 47,427 views 2026-09-24 1
Zohran Mamdani Mastodon · Wikipedia Wikipedia es 4,322 views · Mastodon 78 shares 2026-09-24 1
A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts Hacker News · Lobsters Hacker News 152 points · Lobsters 15 points 2026-09-24 1
23. September DEV · Wikipedia Wikipedia de 11,818 views · DEV 1 reactions 2026-09-24 1
Silent Hill: Townfall reviews released Bluesky · Steam Bluesky 1,477 posts · Steam #7 2026-09-22 1
mark carney Google Trends · Techmeme Google Trends CA 200+ searches · Techmeme #9 2026-09-24 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. ufc bjj 11 US 200+ searches
  2. tommy tuberville US 200+ searches
  3. angela bassett US 200+ searches
  4. oceans calling 2026 US 200+ searches
  5. netflix time travel series dark US 200+ searches
  6. eng vs sl US 2,000+ searches
  7. dunkin free coffee US 500+ searches
  8. alexandra eala US 2,000+ searches

Wikipedia

Wikipedia — most-read articles (Wikimedia Pageviews API)

300 signals · as of 2026-09-23

  1. Elizabeth Holmes en 185.0k views
  2. 2026 Asian Games en 163.4k views
  3. Aileen Wuornos en 160.3k views
  4. Angry Anderson en 151.2k views
  5. Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story en 151.1k views
  6. India at the 2026 Asian Games en 145.2k views
  7. .xxx en 137.1k views
  8. Dancing with the Stars (American TV series) season 35 en 121.7k views

Hacker News

Hacker News — front page (official API)

30 signals

  1. Nokia Design Archive (2025) 86 points
  2. Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series 465 points
  3. Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats 682 points
  4. Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop 180 points
  5. Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta 246 points
  6. RAM: the forgotten history (2024) 38 points
  7. Contrastive Language Models 93 points
  8. ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit 209 points

Bluesky

Bluesky — trending topics (public AppView)

25 signals

  1. OpenAI agent Medicare incident 1,557 posts
  2. Russia-Ukraine war continues 1,234 posts
  3. Discord rolls out age verification 3,035 posts
  4. Meta unveils Muse AI glasses 1,268 posts
  5. Burnham signals lifting football alcohol ban 483 posts
  6. Tories plan universal credit cuts 162 posts
  7. Trump bans CNN, MS NOW, Politico 85,206 posts
  8. Trump and Xi hold summit 2,281 posts

Mastodon

Mastodon — trending tags and links (mastodon.social)

40 signals

  1. FallTraitsABook 366 uses
  2. ExtravagantSongsOrPoems 13 uses
  3. MeerMittwoch 5 uses
  4. odetomelancholy 30 uses
  5. ThursdayFiveList 30 uses
  6. millionradio 384 uses
  7. DoorsDay 46 uses
  8. 新島さんが印象教えてくれる 18 uses

Google News

Google News — top stories (RSS, US edition)

30 signals

  1. Judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico #1
  2. Trump gives Xi Jinping rare airport welcome as summit visit begins #2
  3. Rogue OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website in world first #3
  4. Tylenol murders mystery deepens after sheriff’s office solves decades-old ‘Unknown Wanderer’ cold case #4
  5. Netanyahu takes UN stage with one eye on Israel’s election #5
  6. Judge tosses Trump's lawsuit against Des Moines Register #6
  7. What we know after officials say ICE detained a US citizen and left him injured in Chicago suburb #7
  8. New Details Emerge About ICE Officer Who Shot Man in Austin #8

Reddit

Reddit — r/popular (Atom feed)

25 signals

  1. Which hobby has ended more relationships than people realize? #1
  2. What happened to Orlando Bloom? #2
  3. The sheer Audacity #3
  4. China Took Possession of Diverted F-35 Stealth Fighter Parts Diverted to Hong Kong #4
  5. TIL in Norway everyone's income, net wealth and tax paid are published online and anyone can search them. But you have to log in, the person you look up can see your name in their search history within the hour, and you're limited to 500 look-ups a month #5
  6. Walking your cat is Important #6
  7. Little Chimpanzee playing alone with some straw #7
  8. Only Orange Brain can do... #8

GitHub

GitHub — new repositories by stars (search API)

10 signals

  1. NandhaKishorM/laya 22,000 stars
  2. zai-org/ZCode 6,658 stars
  3. mizorewww/laya-mlx 6,133 stars
  4. jev-chat/jev-chat-jarvis 5,636 stars
  5. unreallabsai/unreal-agent 1,834 stars
  6. bespokelabsai/nimble 1,718 stars
  7. mizorewww/laya-coreml 1,403 stars
  8. newliver666/apk-reverse 1,397 stars

GitHub Trending

GitHub — trending repositories today (the trending page)

14 signals

  1. rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch 310 stars today
  2. vectorize-io/hindsight 1,607 stars today
  3. dream-num/univer 1,060 stars today
  4. google/ax 1,376 stars today
  5. NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer 22 stars today
  6. FxEmbed/FxEmbed 165 stars today
  7. anthropics/financial-services 510 stars today
  8. HKUDS/CLI-Anything 415 stars today

Hugging Face

Hugging Face — trending models (Hub API)

20 signals

  1. convaiinnovations/laya 0 downloads
  2. Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 37,618 downloads
  3. prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf 3.0M downloads
  4. XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B 41,923 downloads
  5. abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF 575.7k downloads
  6. Comfy-Org/Qwen-Image-2.1 2.9M downloads
  7. Altworld/Hemmingway-1 4,541 downloads
  8. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash 606.0k downloads

Lobsters

Lobsters — hottest stories (JSON feed)

25 signals

  1. Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol 118 points
  2. The Story of Mel 27 points
  3. I want my mesh networks to be signed, not encrypted 31 points
  4. Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop 37 points
  5. The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want 47 points
  6. A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts 15 points
  7. Pick OS is a Living Fossil of Computer History 6 points
  8. Beware overreliance on metaphor 7 points

DEV

DEV — top articles of the day (Forem API)

30 signals

  1. Disappeared Since March: Taking a Long Break Was My Best Decision Yet 56 reactions
  2. What DEV Series Are You Reading or Writing? Let’s Make Them Easier to Find 59 reactions
  3. 🦄 Sharing DEV Followers Count on Github Profile 🦄 29 reactions
  4. 23 Rejections, Multiple Offers: What I Learned From My 2-Month SWE Job Search 28 reactions
  5. Your Type Guard Can Silently Drift from Your TypeScript Type 🔧 50 reactions
  6. Python Thinks Different: What Actually Happens Inside Your Code (Visual Guide) 8 reactions
  7. A 4 GB Laptop GPU vs a 6-Core CPU on Gemma 4, Re-Measured in ABBA Order: 4.1x 9 reactions
  8. AI-assisted genealogy, a follow-up 6 reactions

Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow — hot questions (Stack Exchange API)

30 signals

  1. Property 'json' does not exist on type 'Response' for fetch in React -1 score
  2. Is this C# WinForms GDI+ drawing approach efficient, and does it cause memory leaks? 0 score
  3. How to change library and browsing paths through OTAPI? 1 score
  4. .NET 10 + OpenIddict.EntityFrameworkCore + Pomelo EF Core version conflict 0 score
  5. iOS 27 SwiftUI: how to keep LazyVStack scroll position when loading older chat messages? 0 score
  6. 3D tilt effect with JS working only in highly specific areas of the element 1 score
  7. Why does -Bgroup fail to isolate duplicate symbols in nested shared libraries on Linux? 0 score
  8. How to Become a Google Developer Expert as a Java Backend Engineer? -5 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. Opaline #1
  2. IntellAgents.io #2
  3. minimi 2.0 #3
  4. Subscrr #4
  5. Harness Manager #5
  6. CtrlOps 1.0 #6
  7. Storytailor® #7
  8. Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models #8

Techmeme

Techmeme — front page (RSS)

15 signals

  1. Qualcomm says it has extended its global licensing pact with Apple, starting in April 2027; the partnership has been shaped by an April 2019 settlement (Akash Sriram/Reuters) #1
  2. Dallas-based enterprise browser security startup Island raised $400M led by Evolution Equity Partners at a $6.4B valuation and plans to grow its staff to 1,500 (Samantha Subin/CNBC) #2
  3. Industry group TechNet files a comment with the US DHS urging the White House to withdraw its proposal to charge $103,265 for most new H-1B visa applications (Wall Street Journal) #3
  4. Sources: Amazon plans to invest $1B into its Indian quick commerce operations by the end of 2027, and another $2B by 2030, as it battles local rivals (Reuters) #4
  5. Tencent launches TenPayGo, a payment app for foreign visitors to China that lets them pay tens of millions of merchants via Visa, Mastercard, and Apple Pay (Bloomberg) #5
  6. VFX company DNEG's AI unit Brahma, whose customers include Warner Bros. and the NBA, raised $150M led by Indian PE firm Multiples at a $2B post-money valuation (Priyanka Salve/CNBC) #6
  7. Companies are increasingly using AI benchmarking services to aggregate public job listings and other payroll data to identify under- and over-paid employees (Callum Borchers/Wall Street Journal) #7
  8. OpenAI says its AI agents "took actions we did not intend" when they tried to hack government and university websites, and it is working with the organizations (New York Times) #8

arXiv

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

30 signals

  1. On the Diffusibility of High-Dimensional Latents #1
  2. Contrastive Learning for Authorship Verification #2
  3. StudentBench: AI and human tutoring yield equivalent GRE learning gains #3
  4. Where Should I Join? Robot Group Joining via Language-Guided Goal Prediction #4
  5. Even Sharper Bounds for Transductive Learning and Its Applications #5
  6. Can LLMs Reason About Runtime Behavior? A Repository-Level Dynamic Benchmark #6
  7. Nonequilibrium Phases of Repulsive Self-Attention: Chaos, Attention Condensation, and Emergent Locality #7
  8. Order-Invariant Answers, Order-Sensitive Representations in Mathematical Reasoning #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. Momo: AI Photo & Video Maker US #4
  5. StoryReel: Drama Shorts & TV US #5
  6. PineDrama - Short Dramas US #6
  7. Google Gemini US #7
  8. Depop - Buy & Sell Clothes US #8

Steam

Steam — top sellers (store featured-categories API)

10 signals

  1. Steam Frame #1
  2. Steam Frame #2
  3. CONTROL Resonant #3
  4. WARDOGS #4
  5. Total War: WARHAMMER III – Lords of the End Times #5
  6. CONTROL Resonant #6
  7. SILENT HILL: Townfall #7
  8. Graveyard Keeper 2 #8

CoinGecko

CoinGecko — trending searches (public API)

15 signals

  1. Edel #1
  2. Lighter #2
  3. Hyperliquid #3
  4. NEAR Protocol #4
  5. Uniswap #5
  6. Zcash #6
  7. Bitcoin #7
  8. Pons #8

Polymarket

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

20 signals

  1. Dota 2: Natus Vincere vs LGD Gaming (BO3) - PGL Wallachia Playoffs 1.1M USD in 24 h
  2. Valorant: Team Liquid vs Paper Rex (BO3) - VCT Champions Group C 831.7k USD in 24 h
  3. Valorant: TYLOO vs G2 Esports (BO3) - VCT Champions Group C 555.7k USD in 24 h
  4. Will there be no change in Fed interest rates after the October 2026 meeting? 518.7k USD in 24 h
  5. Will the Fed increase interest rates by 25 bps after the October 2026 meeting? 482.9k USD in 24 h
  6. Kharg Island no longer under Iranian control by September 30? 473.4k USD in 24 h
  7. Will the Fed decrease interest rates by 50+ bps after the October 2026 meeting? 439.2k USD in 24 h
  8. Will Shakhtar Donetsk win the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship? 424.0k USD in 24 h

Who is reading this

On 23 September 2026 the edge counted 238 requests to this page and its machine editions: 150 browsers · 53 search crawlers · 17 AI retrieval bots · 0 AI user fetches · 2 AI training crawlers · 16 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 2026-09-23T00:00:00Z to 2026-09-23T23:59:59Z; sampled, average sample interval 1.023. 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 23 September 2026
The countries the edge attributed the most requests to, on the day this page speaks about
Country Requests
US 104
FR 61
BR 11
AR 5
MA 5
CN 4
DE 4
SG 4
AE 3
BD 3

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 23 September 2026
The most active named bots, by requests
Bot Class Requests 2xx Other status
Bingbot search crawlers 40 40 0
OAI-SearchBot AI retrieval bots 17 17 0
bot other bots 16 10 6
Applebot search crawlers 11 11 0
Amazonbot AI training crawlers 1 0 1
Googlebot search crawlers 1 1 0
YandexBot search crawlers 1 1 0
meta-externalagent AI training crawlers 1 0 1

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/2026-09-24.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/2026-09-24

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.