Bullshit Detector
agent skills that fact-check videos and articles
Details
- External ID
- 49096917
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Bullshit Detector
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 65
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8739545997610514
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai agent that fact-checks videos and articles
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An agent skill that extracts transcripts or article text and passes them to an LLM with web-search access to fact-check claims is a straightforward pipeline to vibe-code.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenAI as a judge for fact-checking, Gemini and Fabel (LLMs for verification), arXiv papers for source citation, TikTok, YouTube Shorts for short-form content, Browser extension/plugin approach
Concerns raised: Major news outlets (Reuters, NYT, Guardian) reject agent access to content, Search results inconsistent across minutes, low overlap in sources, LLMs can't catch logical fallacies or bad reasoning from true premises, Report generation takes minutes, too slow for real-time fact-checking, Doesn't work with short-form video content efficiently
Feature requests: Ability to fact-check before publishing content, Integration as browser extension/plugin, Support for transcribing and checking video content locally, Improved access to credible news sources for citations, Logic/inference validation in addition to claim verification
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1246 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #139 of 1247 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.
- Skill-up · hn · 2026-07-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- genpark-agent-hallucination-fact-verifier-skill · github · 2026-09-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- genpark-agent-hallucination-fact-verifier-skill · github · 2026-09-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- fomo-cc · github · 2026-09-29 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- search-answer-reviewer · github · 2026-09-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Implement-spec · hn · 2026-08-04 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Agent Readiness Score · hn · 2026-02-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Tessera · hn · 2026-07-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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