Hacker News, Without AI
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HN · launched Sep 11, 2026 · 197 upvotes (top 4%) · 0 views
Niche: news aggregation platforms · 244 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -54% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 244 launches in news aggregation platforms →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a Hacker News web client or proxy that displays stories filtered by an external AI detection API.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Safari (for testing), Rails, Chrome, MS Edge
Concerns raised: Mobile layout design bugs, Upvote button broken/non-functional, HTML parsing with regex (code quality issue), AI-generated content saturation on HN, Repetitive AI story patterns
Feature requests: Simple tagging system for HN submissions with user-defined filters, Support for multiple browsers beyond Safari
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 493 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 494 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hacker News, without AI · hn · 2026-09-11 · 206 upvotes · similarity 1.00
- Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content · hn · 2026-08-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content · hn · 2026-08-05 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- The Front Page · hn · 2026-05-24 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- The Hacker News Puzzle · hn · 2026-08-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- HackerHack · hn · 2026-11-02 · 185 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- WeSearch · hn · 2026-05-01 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Hacker News, summarized and printed to your local printer · hn · 2026-04-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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