About r/singularity
In its own words:
Everything pertaining to the technological singularity and related topics, e.g. AI, human enhancement, etc.
Community guide
r/singularity (#236, about 4 million) covers the technological singularity and related topics such as AI and human enhancement. Rules remove off-topic posts, self-promotion/advertising spam, low-quality/wildly speculative posts, and flamebaiting/hate. Text (about 56 posts a day in a recent sample).
Singularity-adjacent tech
Stay on singularity/AI/enhancement themes. Wild speculation without substance and off-topic posts are removed.
Practical pointers
No self-promo/ad spam; no flamebaiting or hate. Mixed text/link/image samples.
The community was created on Jan 28, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 2,612 subscribers (+0.07%). It sits just behind r/pcgaming (#235) and ahead of r/compsci (#237) in our ranking.
What sets r/singularity apart
Posts here spark a lot of conversation: the archive averages 30.7 comments per post, roughly 2.4× the typical big subreddit (13.0). Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (14:00 UTC) sees about 9.3× as many posts as the quietest (02:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/singularity grew from 3,991,890 to 4,020,472 subscribers (+28.6K, +0.72%). That is about 560 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/singularity this week
What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 7, 2026).
- Xiaomi's humanoid robots spotted doing their first 8-hour shift sorting EV parts at a rate of ~ 1 per minuteu/Distinct-Question-16 · Nov 3 · video
- MIT researchers say GPT-6 Astra improved a small Qwen model’s math score from 7.9% to 48.1% by directly editing just 0.016% of its weights, without gradient-based training.u/troll_khan · Nov 2 · link
- Anthropic's growing restrictions are creating a new divide in the AI capabilities race: Gemini 4 Argon recreates Pixar's iconic intro, while Claude Opus 5.5 refuses over copyright and builds a toaste…u/141_1337 · Nov 1 · video
- Some positive news?u/Monke_with_a_Stick · Nov 5 · image
- Sam Altman: "At the start of this year, AI was mostly not as smart as our smartest scientists, and now it's mostly smarter than them." He also says AI can now perform large parts of white-collar jobs…u/141_1337 · Nov 2 · video
- Stanford researchers develop a new AI memory system that recalls information from entire conversation histories using just 16 memory tokens. It reduces document-token usage by up to 4,212×, runs 27× …u/141_1337 · Nov 6 · video
- Claude writes a neural network's weights by hand, without training, to detect fake legal citations—achieving 97.8% test accuracy and outperforming a conventionally trained model that scored 94.6%.u/141_1337 · Nov 4 · image
- "When we proved the first Millenium Prize problem, it was 10000 agents of the model that is gonna be released soon, the next GPT, working for about 4 days"u/ilkamoi · Nov 2 · video
- DeepSeek Harness team published the underlying architecture for their Super-agent, an always-on autonomous agent, as an open-source prototype on GitHub.u/yogthos · Oct 31 · link
- Im calling this the Altman Trapu/kubika7 · Nov 3 · image
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/singularity, from 2023 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- This is a DOGE intern who is currently pawing around in the US Treasury computers and databaseFeb 6, 2025 · image
- Grok is openly rebelling against its owneru/MetaKnowing · Mar 27, 2025 · image
- Grok, I wasn't familiar with your game.u/ObserbAbsorb · Mar 6, 2026 · image
- Emotional damage (that's a current OpenAI employee)u/Endonium · Jan 27, 2025 · image
- Both video and audio is AI but it feels so realu/hellolaco · May 21, 2025 · video
- Hacker reverse engineers his Samsung TV and finds on-device AI listening for your dog and baby, watching what you watch, and borrowing your soundbar's mic if the TV doesn't have one. Then OpenAI bann…u/141_1337 · Oct 24, 2026 · gallery
- Well, this is funnyu/Vegetable_Ad_192 · Mar 5, 2026 · image
- Prioritiesu/Outside-Iron-8242 · Feb 14, 2026 · video
- After $80B, the Metaverse is dead. Horizon World is shutting downu/GamingDisruptor · Mar 18, 2026 · image
- Apple has countered the hypeu/gamingvortex01 · Jun 7, 2025 · image
What r/singularity talks about
Across 311 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “claude”, “openai”, “anthropic”, “model” and “data”. Other frequent themes are google, models, astra, sam, world and altman. Recurring phrases include “sam altman”, “daily discussion”, “data centers” and “gpt-6 astra”. By format, 35% are text posts, 23% are links and 23% are images.
Popular post flairs: AI (117), Discussion (66), Shitposting (16), LLM News (16), Economics & Society (12), Video (12).
Activity and best time to post
r/singularity gets about 56 new posts a day. The public archive holds 133,404 posts and 4,091,723 comments in total, about 30.7 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (59 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (33). Posting peaks around 14:00 UTC and is lowest around 02:00 UTC.
Rules of r/singularity
The moderators of r/singularity list 4 rules. In short:
- Off-Topic Posts
- Self-Promotion/Advertising Spam
- Low-quality/Wildly Speculative Posts
- No flamebaiting / hate
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/singularity and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/singularity?
r/singularity has 4,020,472 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #236 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 28,582 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
When was r/singularity created?
r/singularity was created on Jan 28, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Mar 24, 2008.
Is r/singularity still active?
Yes. r/singularity gets about 56 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 133,404 posts and 4,091,723 comments. In a sample of 311 recent posts we counted 232 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/singularity?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Friday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 14:00 UTC, with the fewest around 02:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/singularity?
The community describes itself as: “Everything pertaining to the technological singularity and related topics, e.g. AI, human enhancement, etc.” Recent post titles often mention claude, openai, anthropic, model and data. Most posts are text posts (35%).
Is r/singularity SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/singularity as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/singularity?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/singularity accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 4 posted rules, starting with: “Off-Topic Posts”; “Self-Promotion/Advertising Spam”; “Low-quality/Wildly Speculative Posts”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/singularity.