Data centres had their biggest week since at least 2023
What people actually looked up, measured rather than predicted: 150 tech topics, English Wikipedia views Monday to Friday against the same weekdays of the four weeks before, with Hacker News and Bluesky alongside.
The week in one chart · views vs the usual weekday
Tesla Cybertruck2.80×
Binance2.29×
Sam Altman1.79×
Android1.76×
Canva1.70×
Data centres1.60×
Blue: tied to a story below. Grey: no single story found. The line marks 1×, a normal week.
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Data centres
1.60× usualBiggest week of 201
Views jumped on Wednesday 4 November, the day after US voters passed more than 20 ballot measures limiting data centres, and were still climbing on Friday. No Monday-to-Friday since January 2023 was higher.
Sustained. Up 2× from Wednesday and still rising on Friday, the opposite of a one-day spike.
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Tesla Cybertruck
2.80× usualBiggest since Mar 2025
A quiet week until Friday, when the article took 14,098 views, 11 times a normal weekday, after Tesla said it would wind down Cybertruck production. On Hacker News it was the most-upvoted story among the topics here.
A single-day shock. HN's first story landed at 11:01 UTC Friday, the same day as the Wikipedia jump. It also had a smaller bump on 16 October, the day the flying-Roadster story peaked.
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Binance
2.29× usual3rd-biggest week of 201
This week is the tail of a bigger one. The article hit 50,826 views on Thursday 30 October, about 85 times normal, when Binance said $6.3 billion had been stolen. On 3 November it said the attack began with a fake job interview, which kept the article well above normal all week.
Half the extra attention was gone a day after the peak, but the follow-up story slowed the fall: still 5× normal on Friday, a week later.
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Canva
1.70× usualBiggest since May
The third wave in three weeks. Views rose on 19–23 October and 26–29 October, then hit 10,062 on Wednesday 4 November when Canva confirmed it was cutting 22% of its staff.
Waves, not one spike. Each of the last three weeks had a weekday surge, and this one was the tallest. Hacker News barely reacted: its top Canva story had 33 points.
Fading · how fast attention leaves
Tesla's “flying” Roadster: half the attention gone in one day
The article peaked on Friday 16 October at 61,949 views, 94 times its August–September normal of about 660 a day. Half of that extra attention was gone the next day and 90% within four days. By 31 October it was close to normal again. It ticked up again on 6 November, the day Tesla said it would wind down the Cybertruck.
Unexplained · big moves we couldn't pin on one story
Sam Altman 1.8×
13th-biggest week of 201. Rose on Saturday 31 October and peaked Tuesday 3 November at 29,186 views. Hacker News had 12 stories (248 points), none of them a clear trigger.
Android 1.8×
Spiky single days (26,374 on Sunday 1 November), not a smooth rise. The week's top Android story on HN was a Dutch bank blocking non-Google Android phones (648 points), too small to explain it alone.
How this was measured
Attention is English Wikipedia daily views by people (bots excluded), from the Wikimedia pageviews API, for 150 tech topics. This week means Monday 2 to Friday 6 November 2026 (UTC); Wikipedia publishes a day late, so the weekend isn't in.
Lift compares this week's daily average with the same weekdays of the four weeks before, because most topics are quieter at weekends.
Rank places this week among every Monday–Friday since 2 January 2023 (201 weeks).
Hacker News: stories whose title names the topic, 1 Nov–7 Nov, via the Algolia HN API. Bluesky: likes on the 100 most-liked posts naming it, so busy topics are undercounted.
"Why" links only to reporting we found. When the numbers moved and the reporting didn't explain it, the topic goes under Unexplained. Nothing here is a forecast.
Bleaver Weekly · issue 1 · numbers as of 8 Nov 2026