Credible brings credibility scores directly on Hacker News
Details
- External ID
- 46328157
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Credible brings credibility scores directly on Hacker News
- Website domain
- google.com
- Launched
- Dec. 19, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5562977099236641
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,This is Aki, a technical founder having previously shipped products to 1B+ people (I launched the heart button on twitter).I built Credible because I wanted a way to know whether something I'm about to read would be worth my time. I also got tired of context-switching to verify what I read.Credible is a Chrome extension that displays instant credibility scores directly into the pages you browse, including HN itself.** How it works ** On HN Home: You see a credibility score next to each link.On HN Comments page: You see the full analysis of the linked article.This includes the linked article's key takeaways, credibility score, bias detection, and a breakdown of claims (facts vs opinions vs dubious) without leaving the page.They also show on our mobile-friendly feed here: https://mycredible.ai/feeds/hacker-newsChrome Web Store: https://mycredible.ai/chromeWe will have a major focus next year on shipping tools that utilize AI to make consumption a breeze. As we design that, would love to know: Is this scoring & UX useful for you? What would make it even better?
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- credibility scores for hacker news comments
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a Chrome extension that scrapes Hacker News post links, queries an LLM or predefined domain-scoring API, and injects score badges into the HN DOM.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Algorithm incorrectly flags factual information as marketing tactics, Questionable judgment in categorizing claims as dubious
Feature requests: Add feedback mechanism (like/dislike or report button) on claim breakdowns, Allow users to challenge specific points in dubious section, Tweak algorithm to improve accuracy on edge cases
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 85 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #46 of 86 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 44 days after the earliest competitor.
- I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success · hn · 2026-05-03 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- I built an interactive HN Simulator · hn · 2025-11-24 · 538 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- WhatHappened · hn · 2025-12-08 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Viral Potential Predictor · hn · 2025-12-28 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- according to - Research Companion · ph · 2026-09-26 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Honestly · ph · 2026-03-23 · 363 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Hacker Smacker · hn · 2026-02-24 · 148 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Trader News · hn · 2026-09-24 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a analytics & bi tool for Legal yet.