Hacker News, without AI
Details
- External ID
- 49659647
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hacker News, without AI
- Website domain
- hcker.news
- Launched
- Sept. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 206
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9665071770334929
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hacker news without ai filtering
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is the frontend client for an alternative Hacker News reader UI with local storage settings, DOM rendering, and API fetch calls.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Pangram Labs (EditLens), Firefox extension alternatives, HN official site
Concerns raised: AI filter only catches 44% of submissions (low precision), Pangram API very expensive, No license on tool restricts usage, Menu labeling confusing ("show" unclear), Comment drawer navigation poor
Feature requests: Stronger AI content filter, Better keyboard navigation for comments, Clearer menu labels (Menu/Settings instead of Show), Improved comment drawer UI
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 201 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 202 (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 · 197 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 0.65
- The Hacker News Puzzle · hn · 2026-08-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- WeSearch · hn · 2026-05-01 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Hacker News, summarized and printed to your local printer · hn · 2026-04-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News · hn · 2026-06-14 · 140 upvotes · similarity 0.59
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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