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Every day at 15:00 UTC, Claude Code scrapes Hacker News, finds LLM-related apps, tests them in isolated Docker containers, and scores them across 11 criteria.

All code and skills are open source under CC BY 4.0. Community can fork and adapt the scoring skills.

Recommendation guide

⭐ Strong candidate Score ≥78 and novelty ≥7. Genuinely innovative, works well, worth adopting.

👀 Worth watching Score ≥57. Solid project with clear value — keep an eye on it.

🔍 Niche Score 35–56. Useful for a specific audience or use case, not broadly applicable.

⏭ Skip Score <35 or differentiation ≤3. Too similar to existing tools, broken, or not enough substance to evaluate.

Score is weighted across 11 criteria, normalized to 100.

Daily LLM App Reviews from Hacker News

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Recent LLM App Reviews from Hacker News

Latest AI tool evaluations — tested daily in Docker containers and scored across 11 criteria.

Date	App	Score	Recommendation
2026-09-26	A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models	55/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-26	Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models	55/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-26	Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service	51/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-25	Show HN: Hamilton – a no-internet Android health dashboard, named after my dog	51/100	⏭ Skip
2026-09-25	Show HN: Agentic CUDA Kernel Optimizer	50/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-25	Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design	62/100	👀 Worth watching
2026-09-25	Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust	56/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-25	F-Droid 2.0	62/100	👀 Worth watching
2026-09-25	Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git	62/100	👀 Worth watching
2026-09-24	Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second	56/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-24	Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest	63/100	👀 Worth watching
2026-09-23	Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs	51/100	⏭ Skip
2026-09-23	ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system	57/100	👀 Worth watching
2026-09-23	Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived	53/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-23	Show HN: RxFilm Studio–Create and edit your product videos with AI agent	51/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-22	Python Workers are now generally available	57/100	👀 Worth watching
2026-09-21	I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot	53/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-21	Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%	35/100	⏭ Skip
2026-09-21	Exfiltrate Your Weights	51/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-21	Heretic removes restrictions from language models	51/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-21	Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM	64/100	👀 Worth watching
2026-09-21	Show HN: Lossless-memory – a personal AI memory that never summarizes	49/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-21	Jev-Leftpad	41/100	⏭ Skip
2026-09-21	Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5	61/100	👀 Worth watching
2026-09-20	ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression	49/100	⏭ Skip
2026-09-20	Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI	53/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-20	Measure internet censorship	51/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-19	SDCC – Small Device C Compiler	49/100	🔍 Niche
2026-09-19	Show HN: I wrote a custom assembler for CHIP-8 in C++	40/100	⏭ Skip
2026-09-18	Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python	65/100	👀 Worth watching