Historical reconstruction
The AI FOMO Index for each day since Nov 2022. 50 is the reference level. Higher readings mean more activity in the tracked news corpus relative to its recent baseline. These are retrospective calculations, not observations recorded in real time.
- Days tracked
- 1,472
- Average
- 50
- Days at 75+
- 132
Highest-scoring windows
The ten highest readings, at least four weeks apart, with illustrative headlines. These examples are not independent validation or causal explanations.
- #195High activityweek ending Feb 1, 2025· biggest topic: Models
OpenAI o3-miniOpenAI · 962 points on HN
Mistral Small 3Mistral · 620 points on HN
Open-R1: a fully open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1Hugging Face · 394 points on HN
- #294High activityweek ending Dec 6, 2022· biggest topic: Products
Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPTHacker News · 2,029 points on HN- People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”Hacker News · 1,309 points on HN
- Show HN: Chrome extension to display ChatGPT response besides Google SearchHacker News · 431 points on HN
- #391High activityweek ending May 18, 2024· biggest topic: Agents
- Hello GPT-4oOpenAI · 3,138 points on HN
- Show HN: An open source framework for voice assistantsHacker News · 346 points on HN
- Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice AssistantHacker News · 344 points on HN
- #489High activityweek ending Jan 26, 2023· biggest topic: Open Source
- Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and MidjourneyHacker News · 417 points on HN
- Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3Hacker News · 261 points on HN
- OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnershipHacker News · 457 points on HN
- #589High activityweek ending Mar 18, 2023· biggest topic: Models
- GPT-4Hacker News · 4,091 points on HN
- Dalai: Automatically install, run, and play with LLaMA on your computerHacker News · 848 points on HN
- Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion momentHacker News · 811 points on HN
- #685High activityweek ending Nov 22, 2023· biggest topic: Business
- OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEOHacker News · 1,243 points on HN
- Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam AltmanHacker News · 697 points on HN
- Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEOHacker News · 625 points on HN
- #784High activityweek ending Oct 3, 2023· biggest topic: Image, Video & Audio
- Mistral 7BMistral · 884 points on HN
- Bing ChatGPT image jailbreakHacker News · 464 points on HN
- Efficient streaming language models with attention sinksHacker News · 421 points on HN
- #884High activityweek ending Dec 10, 2024· biggest topic: Image, Video & Audio
- Sora is hereOpenAI · 1,152 points on HN
- Introducing ChatGPT ProOpenAI · 813 points on HN
- OpenAI o1 System CardOpenAI · 417 points on HN
- #982High activityweek ending Nov 8, 2022· biggest topic: Products
- An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI modelHacker News · 726 points on HN
- We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub CopilotHacker News · 724 points on HN
- Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub CopilotHacker News · 322 points on HN
- #1082High activityweek ending Jul 22, 2025· biggest topic: Business
- Introducing ChatGPT agentOpenAI · 686 points on HN
- Le Chat dives deep.Mistral · 664 points on HN
- AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasksHacker News · 534 points on HN
History before the live crawler started was rebuilt from whatever archive each source exposes (feeds, sitemaps, the Hacker News search API) with the same rules the crawler uses. Those archives are not audited for completeness, and some have visible gaps; see known coverage gaps. A source only counts once it has been tracked for a full month, so adding one never shows up as a spike. Methodology →