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Show HN▲1,302
2014 · news.ycombinator.com
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Multiplayer AI agent builder
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I built an interactive HN Simulator▲538
Hey HN! Just for fun, I built an interactive Hacker News Simulator. You can submit text posts and links, just like the real HN. But on HN Simulator, all of the comments are generated by LLMs + generate instantly. The best way to use it (IMHO) is to submit a text post or a curl-able URL here: https://news.ysimulator.run/submit. You don't need an account to post. When you do that, various prompts will be built from a library of commenter archetypes, moods, and shapes. The AI commenters will actually respond to your text post and/or submitted link. I really wanted it to feel…
Nov 2025 · news.ysimulator.run
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n8n AI Workflow Builder▲693
Build AI automations & agents using natural language
Oct 2025 · docs.n8n.io
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Generate startup ideas based on HN comments▲164
2023 · hn-ideas.tjcx.me
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Agent Builder by Thesys▲429
Build AI agents that respond with UI instead of text
Feb 2026
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HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories▲644
I feel like it was inevitable, with the recent buzz around NotebookLM. I'm just surprised that it hasn't been done yet.
2024 · hnup.date
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Emergent▲582
Advanced AI app builder that ships full-stack apps
Oct 2025
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agent.ai▲586
The #1 Professional Network for AI Agents
2025
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Documentation.AI▲519
Build and update product documentation effortlessly with AI
Dec 2025
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Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun▲520
2024 · blog.wilsonl.in
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Builder.io AI▲217
Generate web sections and mini-apps with AI
2023
13FI
Find info about the developers who post projects on Show HN▲99
2020 · showhn-dashboard.netlify.app
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The HN Recap – AI generated daily HN podcast▲177
We've been running The HN Recap for a month to make it easier to consume Hacker News. While this was a PoC in understanding adoption for AI-generated podcasts, we now plan to keep this going, since lots of people are now listening to this daily. Let us know what other content channels you'd like to receive as Podcasts and we'll get on it. Read more about our learnings here → https://wondercraft.ai/blog/learnings-from-1-month-of-ai-pod...
2023 · hackernewsrecap.buzzsprout.com
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Lamatic.ai▲436
Build AI agents in low-code & deploy on edge
2024
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Imagine▲380
Build something real with the most complete AI builder
Jan 2026
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mern.ai▲127
Build full stack apps by chatting with AI
2023
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Portals▲118
AI Agent Builder Toolkit
2025
19AD
A discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News▲193
We (Nick, Dens, Denzell, Fede, Drew, Aaryan, and Daniel) have been building HN Discovery, a discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News, in our spare time for the past 6 months and are excited to show it! It adds the following features relative to the existing keyword search interface and preserves the existing ones: - no-JS version (hnnojs.trieve.ai) - site:{required_site} and site:{negated-site} filters - public analytics - LLM generated query suggestions based on random stories - recommendations - dense vector semantic search - SPLADE fulltext search - RAG AI chat - order by…
2024 · hn.trieve.ai
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Broxi AI▲182
No-code AI agent builder. From text to AI agents in minutes
2025
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Hazumi News 3.0▲99
Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025
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HN Search (Experimental)▲112
A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search
2015
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Laburen.com Agent Builder▲33
Vibe-code custom-ready AI agents just by chatting
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Hyta▲128
AI training network to connect and share insights
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