I scanned 38 products that launched on Hacker News this month. A language model could name 3 of them.
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Every month a few hundred products get posted to Show HN. Most of them are technically alive and commercially invisible. I wanted a number for "invisible", so I ran a scanner over 40 of them. A language model could name 3. What I actually measured I took every Show HN story from the last 30 days th…
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- 2026-10-30 15:19 · DEV Community — AI
I scanned 38 products that launched on Hacker News this month. A language model could name 3 of them.