Show HN: HN SOTA — Daily Tracker of Which Coding Models HN Commenters Actually Prefer — 131 Points

HN Update / Hacker News·medium signal

A Show HN project (131 points, 77 comments) tracks which coding models are most popular and positively discussed on Hacker News in real time. It pulls the top 200 HN posts daily, uses Gemini to identify coding-relevant threads, then extracts model mentions and sentiment from comments against the OpenRouter model list. The tool provides a daily-updated snapshot of practitioner sentiment — a useful complement to formal benchmarks. The HN discussion itself became a meta-debate about whether community sentiment or benchmark scores are better predictors of model utility.