Who recommends tools that actually resolve to an entry in the catalogue
This board does not rank who mentions the most tools; it ranks whose mentions we can actually resolve. A blogger who points at 50 tools of which 45 are in the catalogue is more trustworthy than one who points at 10 of which 2 are - so the order carries a hit-rate correction: score = tools hit × hit-rate correction × heat factor, where the correction is hits ÷ (hits + misses + 20). That is a lower bound, so a blogger with one lucky mention does not lead the board.
Source: the official Hacker News Algolia API (1,590 stories) and 1015 newsletter/RSS feeds (1,218 links). Method: the official API and the published feeds only; we store an excerpt and a link back, never the article.
Updated: hourly, in the same batch as the rest of the site. Last run 2026-10-17 10:05 UTC. This run holds 2,808 mentions, 141 matches and 7 distinct tools; 5,305 mentions could not be matched and went to a manual queue rather than being guessed. 132 commercial/affiliate links, labelled on the row.
Score = tools hit × hit-rate correction × heat factor; correction = hits ÷ (hits + misses + 20); heat = log(1+avg engagement) ÷ log(1+100) for HN points; newsletters carry no engagement signal, so that factor is 1.
Not a quality ranking: it is the worklist of whose material would pay off first if the catalogue were widened. More unresolved mentions means more to gain from ingesting them.
| # | Source | Unresolved | Deduped |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Simon Willison | 1528 | 131 distinct links |
| 2 | Gergely Orosz | 1001 | 121 distinct links |
| 3 | Lenny's Newsletter | 677 | 172 distinct links |
| 4 | Ben Thompson | 573 | 51 distinct links |
| 5 | Jack Clark | 251 | 122 distinct links |
| 6 | speckx | 54 | 47 distinct links |
| 7 | ibobev | 15 | 15 distinct links |
| 8 | surprisetalk | 15 | 13 distinct links |
| 9 | ilreb | 14 | 11 distinct links |
| 10 | signa11 | 11 | 11 distinct links |
| 11 | zdw | 11 | 10 distinct links |
| 12 | gmays | 10 | 9 distinct links |
| 13 | gumby | 10 | 7 distinct links |
| 14 | rbanffy | 9 | 9 distinct links |
| 15 | tosh | 9 | 8 distinct links |
Scope of this run: 1016 bloggers, 2,808 mentions, 141 matches, 7 distinct tools. Mentions that match nothing in the catalogue are queued for review, never guessed.