First HackerTube, then HackerBooks, now HackerTools

Описание и применение

HackerTools агрегирует рекомендации инструментов из комментариев Hacker News, используя контекстные фразы и уникальных пользователей, чтобы повысить обнаруживаемость полезных инструментов.

Задача

Developers on Hacker News need a way to surface tool recommendations from comments without noisy mentions.

Результат

HackerTools surfaces ~116 developer tools ranked by unique commenter recommendations, providing curated quotes and links to original HN comments, improving discoverability of tool recommendations.

Рабочий процесс

• Collect all HN comments
• Filter out job‑post threads
• For each comment, search for recommendation phrases within 120 characters of a tool name
• If match found, record commenter ID and tool name
• Deduplicate by commenter to count unique votes per tool
• Select best quote per tool based on proximity and first‑person usage
• Rank tools by vote count
• Publish results on DEV·TV with links to original comments

Доказательства

The obvious approach is to count how often a tool's name appears. But mentions are noisy:

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So HackerTools only counts a comment when a recommendation phrase sits close to the tool name

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It also: counts people, not comments, so one person praising tmux 20 times is one vote

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