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points · since listing → Oct 18, 13:29 UTC
Still tracked: re-read by each daily run while under ~168h old (window closes ~Oct 25, 06:55 UTC).
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listed Oct 18, 06:55 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 3points
- Comments
- Rank in DEVT this week
- #35of 165 HN
- Rank overall this week
- #201of 991 HN
- Sector hit rate
- 9.3%14/151 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 3Oct 18, 13:29 UTC
- Last reading
- 3Oct 18, 13:29 UTC
- Readings
- 1over 7h
Launch-day race · #7 of 33 Show HN launches on 2026-10-18
- #5Shipback4 points
- #6Benchmarking LLM ability to code in an adversarial language3 points
- #7JSynth3 points
- #8I built a smart audiobook converter that sounds human (not KokoroTTS)2 points
- #9MyBox, Personal Digital Box2 points
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Data as of Oct 18, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC. Sector comes from keyword rules on the title and tagline and can be wrong. How it works