Curious HN – Hacker News without the snark
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Sometimes I get tired of seeing sarcastic, uncurious, low effort, snark on HN. But sometimes those comments do have some insight. I made this site which rewrites and filters with Claude to amplify the curiosity and attenuate the snark.
HN · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 36%) · 0 views
Niche: news aggregation platforms · 230 launches, 26 in the last 7 days ▲ +18% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It fetches HN threads through the public API and passes comments through Claude with a rewrite-or-filter prompt, then renders the results.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: hn-jev-sorter
Concerns raised: rewritten comments drift from original meaning, readers may see only what they want to hear
Feature requests: toggle to hide snarky low-depth comments, filter comments by category, Slashdot-style interface
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 174 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #72 of 175 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 363 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News · hn · 2026-11-03 · 475 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Hacker Backlinks · hn · 2026-02-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- HackerFriction, HackerTube for what HN complains about · hn · 2026-11-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Hacker News · hn · 2026-11-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Wikihack · hn · 2026-11-02 · 339 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Pointless but mostly-exact clone of Hacker News · hn · 2026-10-07 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Turning 100-plus comments HN threads into readable discussions · hn · 2026-01-02 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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