GoKawiilNew tool tracks live share of AI-titled posts on Hacker News
A Show HN project builds a real-time tracker counting how many new Hacker News submissions have 'AI' or related terms in their titles, pulling live data from HN's Firebase API and historical data from Algolia back to 2007. It distinguishes a 'strict' count of the standalone word AI from an 'extended' count including phrases like 'artificial intelligence' and specific vendor/model names, and breaks results down by Show HN, Ask HN, and link posts.
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The tool quantifies AI's takeover of tech discourse with a transparent, reproducible methodology rather than anecdote, correcting for false positives like 'Airport' or 'OpenAI' that inflate naive keyword searches. It also clarifies an important distinction other AI-saturation surveys blur: submission volume versus front-page visibility, which can tell very different stories about actual reader interest.
- The tracker separates a strict word-bounded 'AI' count from an extended count including spelled-out phrases and vendor names.
- It runs entirely client-side using HN's Firebase API and Algolia search, with no server, database, or cookies involved.
- It measures all new submissions ('the firehose'), not front-page appearances, which is a distinct and typically higher metric.
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