The trend radar
What is rising,before it is obvious.
Every term is polled across independent sources over two comparable windows, because a level tells you nothing about whether something is moving. Momentum leads the score; a term shouting on one platform and silent everywhere else is discounted 40%, so a thread cannot masquerade as a trend.
19 of 24 terms returned live signal · 5 rising · refreshed hourly
Underpriced attention
Rising fast, still small. High momentum against low absolute volume — something is moving before the room has noticed. This is the only view here that is not just a better Google Trends.
Score = 0.45 momentum + 0.20 novelty + 0.20 confidence + 0.15 velocity, then discounted 40% when only one source sees it. Momentum leads because a level alone just ranks big evergreen topics. Click any row for the per-source counts and the actual links.
What each source actually measures
Hacker News · weight 0.8 — what a technical, US-skewed, early-adopter community is discussing
GitHub · weight 0.75 — what developers are actually building, not just talking about
Wikipedia · weight 0.9 — broad public curiosity — the least gameable of the three
No source here measures “the internet”, and pretending otherwise is the standard failure of trend dashboards. Hacker News is a few hundred thousand technical people. GitHub search matches loosely across name, description and README, so treat it as directional. Wikipedia is the least gameable of the three and is weighted highest for that reason. Adding a source means one adapter file and one row in the weights table.
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