Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait
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HN · launched Dec 19, 2025 · 188 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 views
Niche: novelty and humor web apps · 188 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -53% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a simple web frontend that pulls Hacker News stories via the public Firebase API and runs headlines through an LLM prompt to rephrase them into clickbait.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: goodnews.eu, wordgag.com, The Register
Concerns raised: Clickbait headlines are common, Follow-up posts diminish novelty and become repetitive, Risk of addiction with live-updated content
Feature requests: Filter out clickbait headlines, Live-update the page with new headlines
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 166 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #19 of 167 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 43 days after the earliest competitor.
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- 3 Scrambled News Headlines · hn · 2026-08-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- The Front Page · hn · 2026-05-24 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Hackerbrief · hn · 2026-03-16 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Hacker News, Without AI · hn · 2026-09-11 · 197 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Hacker News, without AI · hn · 2026-09-11 · 206 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- The Daily Compile · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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