The moment when the braking cycle was really triggered

Does that seem that the news of artificial intelligence is essential? You don’t only imagine it. Zach Perkel, the director and director of the AI applied to the company of company Fractal, followed the number of messages related to the AI which managed to repress the 10 best stories on the news of Hacker in Cominator, and found that we live that we live Teep paz (so far).

Perkel analyzed 24,910 articles and publications that managed to pass the Hacker News Top 10 from January 1, 2019 to August 15, 2025, in order to determine the amount of momentum that the media threshing train won. He found that the interest in AI has apparently 10x from the first quarter of 2019, while only 39 positions linked to AI managed to recruit the list. On the other hand, the third quarter of 2025, which is barely halfway through its calendar period, has already experienced 337 bits of AI content at the top of Hacker News.

It is not surprising that we are talking about the AI much more now than we were in a pre-cat world, pre-a everywhere. But what is a little shocking is how the conversation has accelerated recently.

According to Perkel data, a huge peak of interest from AI occurred between the fourth quarter of 2022 – which includes the public release of Chatgpt on November 30, 2022 – and the first quarter of 2023, when the conversation on the implications of the tool really started to warm up. This period saw a jump of 89 stories linked to the AI in the top 10 of T4 2022 to 174 stories in the first quarter of 2023. But this jump – the one that captures the moment when we went from the cat which is not greater than the leap experienced between the Q2 2025 and the Q3 2025. Since we are not more important between what is passing for Q2 2025. Become the biggest peak of interest for AI to date.

It’s interesting, because Hacker News is not exactly for the uninitiated. It is not as if the public simply wakes up to the accessibility or ramifications of generalized AI tools. He also analyzes the feelings of PERKEL of posts a notable indicator. He found that in the AC era (after Chatgpt), no period had seen a higher percentage of negative messages on AI than the current quarter, which saw 42% of the subject’s critical messages.

It also happens to be a new peak of a short -term trend, which has seen the feeling on the quirky AI. In the first quarter of 2025, only 27% of the best publications of Hacker News on AI were negative. This jumped 36% in the second quarter, which marked the highest percentage at the time since the introduction of Chatgpt at the end of 2022 – only to find itself again by the figures of the Q3.

There is almost certainly an AI bubble, although it is not clear if it is about to break out (Openai is on the verge of an evaluation of $ 500 billion). But there seems to be a change in AI atmosphere.