Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by mchaver on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @06:16AM
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I see a lot of projects repeated: screen capture tool, LLM wrapper, blog/newsletter, marketing tool for reddit/twitter, manage social media accounts. These things have been around for a while so it is really easy for an LLM to spit them out for someone that does not know how to code.
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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by hypercube33 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:00AM
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Agreed. I'm over here working on Quake 2 mods and reverse engineering Off world trading company so I can finish an open source server for it using AI.
Thing is I worked manually on both of these a lot before I even touched Claude on them so I basically was able to hit my wishlist items that I don't have time to deal with these days but have the logic figured out already.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by 1123581321 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @10:16PM
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Whoa, that caught my eye. Offworld Trading Company is one of my favorite RTSes. What are you looking to do with the open source server?
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by mmarian on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:29AM
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It's because the common belief that you should build copies of whatever SaaS makes decent money. What they don't mention is that people need to have a very good reason why they decide to go for your bare-bones MVP instead of a well-established solution.