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Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters

Hacker News · May 2, 2026, 9:25 PM · Also reported by 1 other source

Key takeaways

  • I wanted the ability to audit the process and the results, for debugging and for occasional sanity checks of the model outputs.
  • You can open a comment by appending the comment ID to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=.
  • If it doesn't load for you, you should be able to see the same chart by opening the Sheet directly.

State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters. The space of AI-assisted coding is evolving rapidly. This is an attempt at staying up to date with the latest developments, by capturing popularity and user sentiment of coding models from Hacker News comments. Updated daily.

I wanted the ability to audit the process and the results, for debugging and for occasional sanity checks of the model outputs. So the results are logged to a Google Sheet, where you can see the comment IDs that mention specific models and the sentiment that the model determined for that comment and model.

You can open a comment by appending the comment ID to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=.

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