Y Recombinator
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A lot of the best stuff I've read on HN I found through a comment saying "this old thread is worth reading." So, I tried to collect all of them!It takes every HN comment that links to another HN item, drops the dupe/previous discussion/related links, and uses Sonnet to decide which of the rest are actual recommendations. Then it ranks them by how many different people recommended each one.The Dropbox comment is #1, which I guess is no surprise. Further down there's a lot I hadn't seen.If you swap news.ycombinator.com for yrecombinator.org in an item link, you can see who recommended it.Inspired by Karpathy's HackerTube: https://yrecombinator.org/item?id=50319510
HN · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 32%) · 0 views
Niche: developer and open source resource directories · 165 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -73% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It crawls Hacker News comments, extracts links to other HN items and uses an LLM to filter and rank them into a static site. This is standard API scraping, LLM classification and a simple web front end.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Alerts
Feature requests: User profile pages for linking from profiles, Search for 'Author here' threads, Notifications when a user's work appears on the site, API for Author Here data, Distribution plots to surface cult-status items
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 136 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #59 of 137 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 375 days after the earliest competitor.
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