Trend detail

General TechGeneral TechCooling57% confidenceCoolingSpiking

Follow Crocker

Rank #47 with 2 captured signals across 2 sources.

Follow Crocker is a cooling trend validated by 2 signals across 2 sources.

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Total score31.6

Movement-6

Momentum-0.3%

First seen14 Mar 2026

History

Score trajectory

Dashed line shows a high-confidence projection using SES smoothing.

Score

Component breakdown

Market footprint

Platform signals

Live provider metricEstimated fallback metric

Hacker News

142

Hacker News engagement

captured stories · 70% confidence · Updated 14 Mar 2026Open source

Why now

Current rationale

Signal 1Social signals are leading the move (14.3 score).

Signal 2Cross-source confirmation is present across 2 sources.

Canonicalization

Tracked aliases

follow crocker

Follow Crocker

Quality

Potential duplicates

No close duplicates flaggedThis trend currently looks distinct from the rest of the published set.

Opportunity

What you can do with it

Composite 22%Discovery 23% · SEO 20% · Content 29% · Product 17% · Investment 22%

Rising

Limited actionability signals

Prediction

Breakout outlook

Rising · 59% confidenceRecently emerged (<24h) · High base score (31.6)

Next 5 runs · High confidence · SES smoothingSES smoothing · 1.5% backtest error

31.4 to 31.4 projected

Sources

What is driving this rank

Hacker News and Lobsters account for 83.4% of this score.

Hacker News1 signals · 41.7% est. score shareSocial 7.2 · Diversity 6.0Latest healthy fetch kept 45 of 45 items

HealthyFresh · 14 Mar 2026, 08:01 · 13.2 pts · 13 Mar 2026, 23:14

Lobsters1 signals · 41.7% est. score shareSocial 7.2 · Diversity 6.0Latest healthy fetch kept 25 of 25 items

HealthyFresh · 14 Mar 2026, 08:02 · 13.2 pts · 14 Mar 2026, 00:06

Audience

Who and where this seems relevant

DeveloperAudience segment

2 signals

FounderAudience segment

1 signals

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Geo

Where it is showing up

No location signals yet.

Evidence

Recent signals

I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to meHacker News · Social · Value 142.0Developer · Founder

13 Mar 2026, 23:14

I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to meLobsters · Social · Value 99.0Developer

14 Mar 2026, 00:06