Everyone is always welcome to email us (hn@ycombinator.com) and we can advise on whether a project and its intro post are a good fit for HN. Plenty of good projects get missed by the audience, but we can always put things in the second chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).

No project should ever be "overlooked" due to the use of AI coding tools.

The only valid reason for a project failing to get solid exposure on HN is that there is not much substance to it (some combination of thought, effort, ingenuity, usefulness).

> If you read the old explanations I linked to, you'll see that the original plan was to turn this system into software that anyone can participate in, likely as a new way to earn karma: users who discover second-chance links that hit the jackpot (that is, which interest the community) would get karma along with the original submitter. That is still the plan! We're just slow.

Did this happen?

> No project should ever be "overlooked" due to the use of AI coding tools.

Why would stolen GPL code spit out poorly by the Chinese Room experiment be interesting or satisfy intellectual curiosity? Anyone can ask a chatbot to make anything, and according to LLM fans they'll do it, now. Zero value and zero intellectual curiosity possible in projects that used LLMs in their creation. Terrible take.

So many bad Show HNs lately, mostly langlemangle garbage. Zero thought, zero effort, zero skill, zero ingenuity, zero usefulness. Completely ruins the historical value of the "Show" tab, killing a valuable historical resource for everyone because of how heavily-invested YC is into the "hit the button to make disposable software" genre of company.