HN Bot Detector
Detects LLM-Generated Comments on Hacker News
Details
- External ID
- 47213682
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- HN Bot Detector
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4108241082410824
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- detect llm-generated comments online
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A tool that scrapes Hacker News comments and queries an LLM or off-the-shelf classifier API for bot detection is easily built using standard AI-assisted workflows.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Case sensitivity affects scoring/detection accuracy
Feature requests: Make detection case-insensitive
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 469 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #263 of 470 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 122 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hacker Backlinks · hn · 2026-02-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- HNswered · hn · 2026-04-24 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- HN Glance · hn · 2026-07-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Mousecrack · hn · 2026-07-30 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- The Front Page · hn · 2026-05-24 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content · hn · 2026-08-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content · hn · 2026-08-05 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- IsHumanCadence · hn · 2026-02-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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