Sentient, Your Coding Agent Shouldn't Be a Black Box
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Middle of the pack
Beat 51% of Show HN launches that day
#37 of 112 on Nov 7
#6 of 16 AI Agents launches on Show HN on Nov 7. 4.7% of AI Agents launches (8 of 172) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See AI Agents →
points · traction gained Nov 12, 10:31 UTC → Nov 13, 10:27 UTC · % shown only when the previous traction was 5+
Still tracked: re-read by each daily run while under ~168h old (window closes ~Nov 14, 23:26 UTC).
comments · buzz 0 in latest interval
listed Nov 7, 23:26 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 2points
- Comments
- 0
- Rank in AGNT this week
- #69of 174 HN
- Rank overall this week
- #339of 1,038 HN
- Sector hit rate
- 4.7%8/172 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 1Nov 8, 12:36 UTC
- Last reading
- 2Nov 13, 10:27 UTC
- Readings
- 6over 131h
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Top on Nov 7 · 112 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller289 points
- #2We compressed a 31B video+audio diffusion model to 14B, 6 steps, INT884 points
- #3Where Were We58 points
- #4JavaScript web apps with WASM layout and GPU rendering in 280 KB46 points
- #5An offline desktop companion to help maintain a healthy blink rhythm40 points
More in AI Agents · top Show HN launches, last 7 days
- Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives439 points▲ +10
- AgentRunopen-source, Self-improving Managed Agents103 points▲ +103
- Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available)83 points▲ +4
- Pomerado (YC F26)Turn any website into an MCP for agents61 points▲ +6
- RecalcSpreadsheet where cells can be Claude Code or Codex terminals37 points0
Grades · each graded against other AI Agents launches from the same source
Momentum
C+0 points
Traction gained in the latest daily interval
Better than 48% · vs 136 still-tracked AI Agents · Show HN launches
Velocity
C0.04 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 57% · vs 746 AI Agents · Show HN launches, last 30 days
Engagement
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Comments per 10 points
Needs 10+ points; below that the ratio is mostly noise
Staying Power
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Votes at last reading ÷ votes at first reading
Needs 10+ points and readings from two runs
Launch-day race · #37 of 112 Show HN launches on 2026-11-07
- #35CLI calls spend their time starting up. I cut it by 4.5x, same output2 points
- #36An immutable local inference appliance with routing capability2 points
- #37Sentient, Your Coding Agent Shouldn't Be a Black Box2 points
- #38SF Title Alert2 points
- #39Yahtzee2 points
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