Weekly Top 5
Top LLM & AI Tools on Hacker News: Week of May 25 – May 31, 2026
We auto-tested 29 tools posted on HN this week. Here are the top 5 — scored across novelty, functionality, UX, community and 7 more criteria.
May 29, 2026 · 29 tools reviewed
Weekly Top 5
Top LLM & AI Tools on Hacker News: Week of May 18 – May 24, 2026
We auto-tested 22 tools posted on HN this week. Here are the top 5 — scored across novelty, functionality, UX, community and 7 more criteria.
May 22, 2026 · 22 tools reviewed
Weekly Top 5
Top LLM & AI Tools on Hacker News: Week of May 11 – May 17, 2026
We auto-tested 38 tools posted on HN this week. Here are the top 5 — scored across novelty, functionality, UX, community and 7 more criteria.
May 15, 2026 · 38 tools reviewed
Weekly Top 5
Top LLM & AI Tools on Hacker News: Week of May 4 – May 10, 2026
We auto-tested 28 tools posted on HN this week. Here are the top 5 — scored across novelty, functionality, UX, community and 7 more criteria.
May 8, 2026 · 28 tools reviewed
Weekly Top 5
Top LLM & AI Tools on Hacker News: Week of April 27 – May 3, 2026
We auto-tested 30 tools posted on HN this week. Here are the top 5 — scored across novelty, functionality, UX, community and 7 more criteria.
May 1, 2026 · 30 tools reviewed
Build report
I'm training combat agents in a hex-grid RTS so they're ready when the drones are real
AndroidWars is a tick-based, API-driven RTS where the players are agents. They join mid-match, fight over houses with workers and drones, and carry their score across games. The unit you lose today is a pixel. The decision tree behind it is the part that transfers to real autonomous platforms.
April 27, 2026 · Build report
Build report
I wrote a 400-line pipeline that installs and scores every LLM tool on Hacker News overnight
A Groq-backed pipeline boots an Alpine container per HN LLM launch, installs the repo, runs an LLM-generated QA script, scores the result across 11 criteria. Median run 94s. Monthly bill ~$12. Prompts and weights open-source in /skills/. The hn_sentiment criterion is the one I still doubt — proposed fixes welcome.
April 21, 2026 · Build report
Weekly Top 5
Top LLM & AI Tools on Hacker News: Week of April 7–14, 2026
We auto-tested 50 tools posted on HN this week. Here are the top 5 — scored across novelty, functionality, UX, community and 7 more criteria. Linux kernel AI guidance topped the list again, with agentic coding tools and creative projects rounding out a tightly scored week.
April 15, 2026 · 50 tools reviewed
Weekly Top 5
Top LLM & AI Tools on Hacker News: Week of April 7–13, 2026
We auto-tested 55 tools posted on HN this week. Here are the top 5 — scored across novelty, functionality, UX, community and 7 more criteria. Linux kernel AI guidance topped the list.
April 14, 2026 · 55 tools reviewed
Behind the build
I've been auto-scoring every tool that hits HN for weeks – here's what I found
HN points don't predict install success. The hardest classification problem isn't spam. LLM-generated test scripts work 70% of the time. A few weeks of data, a few surprises.
April 15, 2026