--- title: "SF scene — AI theme on Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/themes/sf_scene as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # SF scene [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Themes](https://abovethefog.app/themes.md) › SF scene SF scene is one of the themes Above the Fog’s AI hype radar sorts its stories into. On Sep 27, 2026, 4 kept stories were about it (0.2% of the day, against a 7-day average of 0.4%). 80 stories in 7 days, down 64% on the week before. - **Stories on Sep 27:** 4 - **Share of the day:** 0.2% - **Share, 7-day average:** 0.4% - **Change vs the 7-day average:** −0.2 percentage points - **Stories in 7 days:** 80 - **The 7 days before:** 220 - **Week over week:** fading (at least 25% fewer than the week before) - **Hands-on share:** 6% (tutorials, show and tell, questions) ## Topics in this theme The tracked topics most present in its stories of the last 7 days: 1. [SF AI scene](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene.md) — 23 stories (the 7 days before: 52) 2. [Waymo - robotaxis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/waymo.md) — 23 stories (the 7 days before: 95) 3. [Data centers - compute](https://abovethefog.app/topics/data_centers.md) — 7 stories (the 7 days before: 16) 4. [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) — 5 stories (the 7 days before: 15) 5. [AGI - superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agi.md) — 5 stories (the 7 days before: 0) 6. [Nvidia](https://abovethefog.app/topics/nvidia.md) — 3 stories (the 7 days before: 1) 7. [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.md) — 2 stories (the 7 days before: 0) 8. [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) — 2 stories (the 7 days before: 0) 9. [Dreamforce 2026](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dreamforce.md) — 2 stories (the 7 days before: 41) 10. [SF AI hackathons and events](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_hackathons.md) — 1 story (the 7 days before: 3) 11. [Elon Musk](https://abovethefog.app/topics/elon_musk.md) — 1 story (the 7 days before: 0) 12. [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) — 1 story (the 7 days before: 14) ## Companies in its stories The main company involved in each story, by share of the stories (38% involve none): - Other company — 46% - OpenAI — 6.2% - Nvidia — 3.8% - Google — 3.8% - Anthropic — 2.5% ## Kinds of stories - News — 74% - Opinion — 20% - Show and tell — 3.8% - Question — 2.5% ## Where its stories come from | Source | Stories in 7 days | Share | |---|---:|---:| | SF local press (RSS) | 24 | 30% | | Reddit | 23 | 29% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | 12 | 15% | | Cerebral Valley (AI events) | 7 | 8.8% | | Hacker News | 6 | 7.5% | | Google News (RSS) | 4 | 5% | | GitHub | 1 | 1.2% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | 1 | 1.2% | ## Top stories this week 1. [Intel cuts dozens of Bay Area jobs in latest layoffs](https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1wp7q6h/) — Reddit (r/bayarea) · Sep 24 · score 564 · 104 comments 2. [Waymo launches public transport rewards program, with Caltrain](https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1wph1tr/) — Reddit (r/bayarea) · Sep 24 · score 183 · 16 comments 3. [Opinion \| In the Land of Billionaire Barbarians](https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1wmim8n/) — Reddit (r/bayarea) · Sep 21 · score 55 · 77 comments 4. [What to do when your Waymo holds up a Secret Service motorcade](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819658) — Hacker News (ft.com) · Sep 23 · score 32 · 22 comments 5. [I forget if I posted about this the other day but ... I saw a #waymo \(or something similar. All of the sensors looked the same but I think it was a gasoline powered SUV\) on highway 1 heading northbou…](https://m.ai6yr.org/@douglasvb/117340553679073153) — Mastodon (fediverse) (m.ai6yr.org) · Sep 27 · score 3 · 2 comments 6. [The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49795580) — Hacker News (nytimes.com) · Sep 22 · score 5 · 1 comment 7. [Are these things simply yet another anti-accountability move? \>\> There's no law to ticket the #Waymo that drove through a #Denver farmers market https://www.9news.com/article/news/community/transport…](https://c.im/@shonin/117312690312518401) — Mastodon (fediverse) (c.im) · Sep 22 · score 3 · 1 comment 8. [Sandbagged: Hoping to steal Nvidia chips, thieves mistakenly grab 20tons of sand](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855077) — Hacker News (sfstandard.com) · Sep 26 · score 4 · 0 comments ## Stories per day, last 30 days | Day | Stories | |---|---:| | Sep 27, 2026 | 4 | | Sep 26, 2026 | 7 | | Sep 25, 2026 | 8 | | Sep 24, 2026 | 12 | | Sep 23, 2026 | 12 | | Sep 22, 2026 | 20 | | Sep 21, 2026 | 17 | | Sep 20, 2026 | 8 | | Sep 19, 2026 | 18 | | Sep 18, 2026 | 89 | | Sep 17, 2026 | 49 | | Sep 16, 2026 | 8 | | Sep 15, 2026 | 24 | | Sep 14, 2026 | 24 | | Sep 13, 2026 | 14 | | Sep 12, 2026 | 11 | | Sep 11, 2026 | 23 | | Sep 10, 2026 | 17 | | Sep 9, 2026 | 4 | | Sep 8, 2026 | 4 | | Sep 7, 2026 | 1 | | Sep 6, 2026 | 1 | | Sep 5, 2026 | 4 | | Sep 4, 2026 | 7 | | Sep 3, 2026 | 10 | | Sep 2, 2026 | 12 | | Sep 1, 2026 | 19 | | Aug 31, 2026 | 10 | | Aug 30, 2026 | 8 | | Aug 29, 2026 | 1 | [Open SF scene in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#theme=sf_scene) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/themes/sf_scene) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)