OpenAI
Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.
Fig. 1OpenAI's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
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Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.
Fig. 2npm downloads a week: openai
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Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.
Fig. 3PyPI downloads a week: openai
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Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.
Job ads naming it, by week
Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names OpenAI. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.
- 10 Aug 3
- 17 Aug 10
- 24 Aug 8
- 31 Aug 0
- 7 Sept 0
- 14 Sept 8
- 21 Sept 1
- 28 Sept 3
- 5 Oct 3
- 12 Oct 2
- 19 Oct 2
- 26 Oct 1
Biggest stories, last 90 days
- Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board2.3K pts · 1594 comments · 4 Sept
- OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems953 pts · 592 comments · 11 Sept
- More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math861 pts · 810 comments · 10 Sept
- Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face746 pts · 467 comments · 25 Sept
- OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005732 pts · 441 comments · 22 Sept
- Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?678 pts · 752 comments · 22 Oct
- A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals675 pts · 244 comments · 14 Sept
- OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room652 pts · 539 comments · 13 Oct
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