--- title: "Banana — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/banana as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Banana (🧩 Products) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › Banana Banana is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 15 points lower than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 22 to Sep 25 (peak 40 on Sep 25). First seen on Google News (RSS) · Sep 14 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 0 / 100 · −3.8 in 1 day · −14.9 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 40.5 on Sep 25, 2026 - **Category:** 🧩 Products - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 22 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 130 - **Share of voice:** 1.2% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hacker News | mentions | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | tag uses | 2 | 1 | 1.5× | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas \(2025\)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822555) — Hacker News (fly.io) · Sep 23 · score 310 · 218 comments 2. [The term “AI slop” has officially become more derivative than the content it’s trying to dunk on](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wqxrhg/) — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 26 · score 20 · 127 comments 3. [Behold the pawpaw, the tropical 'alien banana' that grows right here in Canada](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872612) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (cbc.ca) · Sep 28 · score 39 · 7 comments 4. [Blaming Across the Aisle: Political Contrasting and Blame Attribution in the Danish Parliament](https://huggingface.co/papers/2609.26346) — Hugging Face Daily Papers (hf-papers) · Sep 23 · score 11 · 2 comments 5. [Once finished in the #garden I baked a #banana & #apricot #flapjack, some of which we'll have at tea time 😋 #gay #naked #naturist #nakedbaker #nakedchef #bodypositive #nudist #alwaysnaked #nakedandpr…](https://mastodon.social/@JeffsNakedLife/117338417233006913) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 26 · score 15 · 0 comments 6. [Fireworks, Fal Consider New Rounds as Inference Demand Soars](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fireworks-fal-consider-new-rounds-inference-demand-soars) — Tech press (RSS) (The Information) · Sep 25 7. [m'lord](https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1wqdjk1/) — Reddit (r/vibecoding) · Sep 26 · score 177 · 26 comments 8. [Nano Banana 2.5 Flash Traces found, release soon](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1wp2vbo/) — Reddit (r/Bard) · Sep 24 · score 59 · 13 comments 9. [Nano Banana 2 on the Pro version is generating low-quality images](https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1wovijx/) — Reddit (r/GeminiAI) · Sep 24 · score 4 · 15 comments 10. [#Dog #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #DogsOfFedi #DogsOfPixelFed #Dogstodon #PetLife #MastoDogs #FediDogs #Pet #Pets #Niki #Nico #dopic #dogslife #Chihuahuas #Banana feeding.](https://c.im/@fonecokid/117319703377131743) — Mastodon (fediverse) (c.im) · Sep 23 · score 4 · 1 comment 11. [Behold the pawpaw, the tropical 'alien banana' that grows right here in Canada](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872612) — Hacker News (cbc.ca) · Sep 28 · score 39 · 7 comments 12. [Banana. Aquela fruta asiática, tipicamente africana que representa a América. #Banana](https://social.vivaldi.net/@NoahLoren/117315071904876159) — Mastodon (fediverse) (vivaldi.net) · Sep 22 · score 5 · 0 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 33 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 76% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 15% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 6.1% of its stories - Other AI — 6.1% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 3% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 3% of its stories ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 3.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 40.5 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 24, 2026 | 31.9 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 23, 2026 | 29.6 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 22, 2026 | 27.4 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 21, 2026 | 15.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 14.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 17.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 14 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 13.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 13 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 14.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 12 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 4.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 15.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 4.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 15.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 5.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 0.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 5 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 4.6 | 💤 Quiet | [Open Banana in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=banana) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/banana) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)