Hate to break it to you but karma doesn’t count for anything, although always spamming articles from your own blog is the rookie mistake that gets your posts to start out [dead]
Take a look at /new, choked with AI products and “Ask HN: How come Vibe Coding Doesn’t Work For Me Although It Works For Everyone Else?” Or “Show HN: I Vibe Coded Something and It Almost Works”, “Is MCP really that evil program from Tron?”, etc.
The cheat code for August 2025 is it’s not about AI and if it an AI-oriented product it doesn’t say so right out front.
Thanks for the feedback — definitely not meant as spam. It’s open source, not a commercial blog. Just wanted to surface some fresh ideas that might otherwise get missed. Really appreciate the tip!
To make it clear I'm not accusing you of spamming, but I do think the supply vs demand for AI articles right now is out of whack.
What I was trying to say about spam is that your karma doesn't count so much as being a participant in the community counts. Like, I post a lot of articles to web sites that aren't my blog so if I post a few links to my blog it is OK. Now I'm an extreme case because I post a lot of links, but somebody who has like 1/10,000 the karma I have or less could post what they like so long as they aren't posting all links to the same web site. That's the place where your participation matters -- my posts don't do any better than anyone else's.
Got it, thanks for clarifying. Makes sense that participation matters more than raw karma. I’ll keep that in mind and try to contribute more broadly, posting less about my own projects.
Nice UI btw, plus good use of AI for scoring/summarization.
I wrote something kinda similar that scrapes HN (using Firebase) for particular keywords I'm interested in. It gathers all hyperlinks mentioned in comments and uses NLTK to summarize. Kind of a curated HN reading list.
I'm currently working on using an LLM for the summaries.
Your project has given me a few ideas for mine. Thanks!
Glad to hear it. Your NLTK approach sounds interesting — would love to hear more about it. BTW, I’m planning to improve my project’s documentation. Funny enough, under “consideration” it flagged itself: "Documentation quality is not explicitly high. The effectiveness of the LLM’s scoring criteria is subjective and not deeply explained." Sadly, that’s true.
Hate to break it to you but karma doesn’t count for anything, although always spamming articles from your own blog is the rookie mistake that gets your posts to start out [dead]
Take a look at /new, choked with AI products and “Ask HN: How come Vibe Coding Doesn’t Work For Me Although It Works For Everyone Else?” Or “Show HN: I Vibe Coded Something and It Almost Works”, “Is MCP really that evil program from Tron?”, etc.
The cheat code for August 2025 is it’s not about AI and if it an AI-oriented product it doesn’t say so right out front.
Thanks for the feedback — definitely not meant as spam. It’s open source, not a commercial blog. Just wanted to surface some fresh ideas that might otherwise get missed. Really appreciate the tip!
To make it clear I'm not accusing you of spamming, but I do think the supply vs demand for AI articles right now is out of whack.
What I was trying to say about spam is that your karma doesn't count so much as being a participant in the community counts. Like, I post a lot of articles to web sites that aren't my blog so if I post a few links to my blog it is OK. Now I'm an extreme case because I post a lot of links, but somebody who has like 1/10,000 the karma I have or less could post what they like so long as they aren't posting all links to the same web site. That's the place where your participation matters -- my posts don't do any better than anyone else's.
Got it, thanks for clarifying. Makes sense that participation matters more than raw karma. I’ll keep that in mind and try to contribute more broadly, posting less about my own projects.
Maybe I'm missing something, but should the "discuss on HN" hyperlink on your page goto the Show HN entry being referenced?
It seems to go to a HN post that is something else entirely??
You're right — I totally missed that. Fixed it, please reload.
Yep I can confirm the bug is fixed.
Nice UI btw, plus good use of AI for scoring/summarization.
I wrote something kinda similar that scrapes HN (using Firebase) for particular keywords I'm interested in. It gathers all hyperlinks mentioned in comments and uses NLTK to summarize. Kind of a curated HN reading list.
I'm currently working on using an LLM for the summaries.
Your project has given me a few ideas for mine. Thanks!
Glad to hear it. Your NLTK approach sounds interesting — would love to hear more about it. BTW, I’m planning to improve my project’s documentation. Funny enough, under “consideration” it flagged itself: "Documentation quality is not explicitly high. The effectiveness of the LLM’s scoring criteria is subjective and not deeply explained." Sadly, that’s true.