Source Reputation

Which sources are carrying signal?

VQV ranks public sources by recent signal quality, source-backed activity, reposts, topic coverage, and basic source health.

This is a transparency aid, not a claim of authority or independent fact-checking.

33 sources evaluated Source transparency

How reputation is scored

VQV combines average signal strength, top score, source-backed count, strong signal count, reposts, topic coverage, and source health.

What it is not

It is not a trust seal, private rating, paid placement, or editorial endorsement. It only summarizes public VQV inputs.

Highest Reputation

Composite public source score

1 Hacker News hackernews · 20 signals · 20 source-backed 309.2 2 arXiv arxiv · 20 signals · 20 source-backed 247.3 3 OpenAI News rss · 8 signals · 8 source-backed 161.3 4 GitHub Changelog rss · 7 signals · 7 source-backed 148.2 5 TechCrunch AI rss · 6 signals · 6 source-backed 134.9 6 Vercel Blog rss · 6 signals · 6 source-backed 132.0 7 The Robot Report rss · 6 signals · 6 source-backed 130.3 8 NVIDIA Blog rss · 5 signals · 5 source-backed 124.8 9 Google Security Blog rss · 6 signals · 5 source-backed 119.0 10 VentureBeat AI rss · 5 signals · 4 source-backed 112.5 11 Hugging Face Blog rss · 5 signals · 4 source-backed 112.0 12 Microsoft Developer Blog rss · 4 signals · 4 source-backed 104.4

Most Active

Hacker News 20 signals · top score 78.6 arXiv 20 signals · top score 76.1 OpenAI News 8 signals · top score 76.0 GitHub Changelog 7 signals · top score 82.5 TechCrunch AI 6 signals · top score 74.3 The Robot Report 6 signals · top score 74.2 Vercel Blog 6 signals · top score 65.5 Google Security Blog 6 signals · top score 63.1 NVIDIA Blog 5 signals · top score 70.5 CNBC Tech 5 signals · top score 69.0 The Verge AI 5 signals · top score 68.6 VentureBeat AI 5 signals · top score 67.0

Most Source-backed

arXiv 20 source-backed · 95.0 avg strength Hacker News 20 source-backed · 82.8 avg strength OpenAI News 8 source-backed · 90.8 avg strength GitHub Changelog 7 source-backed · 91.6 avg strength The Robot Report 6 source-backed · 95.0 avg strength Vercel Blog 6 source-backed · 94.7 avg strength TechCrunch AI 6 source-backed · 91.0 avg strength Google Security Blog 5 source-backed · 90.7 avg strength NVIDIA Blog 5 source-backed · 90.6 avg strength VentureBeat AI 4 source-backed · 95.0 avg strength Microsoft Developer Blog 4 source-backed · 92.0 avg strength Hugging Face Blog 4 source-backed · 89.6 avg strength

Most Reposted

Hacker News 0 reposts · 20 signals arXiv 0 reposts · 20 signals OpenAI News 0 reposts · 8 signals GitHub Changelog 0 reposts · 7 signals The Robot Report 0 reposts · 6 signals TechCrunch AI 0 reposts · 6 signals Vercel Blog 0 reposts · 6 signals Google Security Blog 0 reposts · 6 signals CNBC Tech 0 reposts · 5 signals The Verge AI 0 reposts · 5 signals Hugging Face Blog 0 reposts · 5 signals NVIDIA Blog 0 reposts · 5 signals

Healthiest

All Evaluated Sources

Public metrics only

Source Rep Signals Source-backed Avg Strength Reposts Topics Health

Hacker News 309.2 20 20 82.8 0 15 healthy arXiv 247.3 20 20 95.0 0 15 healthy OpenAI News 161.3 8 8 90.8 0 6 unknown GitHub Changelog 148.2 7 7 91.6 0 4 unknown TechCrunch AI 134.9 6 6 91.0 0 4 unknown Vercel Blog 132.0 6 6 94.7 0 3 unknown The Robot Report 130.3 6 6 95.0 0 1 unknown NVIDIA Blog 124.8 5 5 90.6 0 5 unknown Google Security Blog 119.0 6 5 90.7 0 3 unknown VentureBeat AI 112.5 5 4 95.0 0 4 unknown Hugging Face Blog 112.0 5 4 89.6 0 5 unknown Microsoft Developer Blog 104.4 4 4 92.0 0 2 unknown The Verge AI 98.5 5 3 91.0 0 3 unknown TechCrunch Robotics 96.2 3 3 94.3 0 2 unknown Cloudflare Blog 94.4 3 3 91.3 0 2 unknown NPR Technology 86.5 2 2 93.0 0 2 unknown CNBC Tech 85.2 5 2 89.8 0 2 unknown Replit Blog 82.5 2 2 95.0 0 1 unknown EdSurge 81.8 2 2 92.0 0 1 unknown GitHub Security Lab 81.5 2 2 90.5 0 2 unknown IEEE Spectrum AI 80.5 2 2 89.0 0 2 unknown MIT Technology Review AI 74.2 1 1 95.0 0 1 unknown Hacker News Newest 73.5 1 1 91.0 0 1 unknown Ars Technica AI 73.2 2 1 89.5 0 2 unknown BleepingComputer 72.3 1 1 92.0 0 1 unknown GitHub Blog 71.8 1 1 93.0 0 1 unknown Sourcegraph Blog 70.0 1 1 95.0 0 1 unknown Krebs on Security 67.3 1 1 88.0 0 1 unknown Hacker News Front Page 60.6 1 0 87.0 0 1 unknown Meta Newsroom 57.6 2 0 84.0 0 2 unknown Apple Newsroom 57.0 1 0 84.0 0 1 unknown ZDNET AI 56.4 1 0 84.0 0 1 unknown GitHub -101.2 1 1 95.0 0 1 healthy