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Sprinklz (HN with less AI)
A customizable feed builder whose public Hacker News feed ranks AI-driven stories lower using text matching and embeddings.
Show HN 2026-08-05; sprinklz.io home page served 2026-10-26 with demos and sign-up; maker says the larger project has been in work for almost 4 years. (checked 2026-10-25)
In AI content filters
Where it stands apart
- Do you need an account to use it? optional account (6% of 16 others)
- Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? none of these (its own format or interface) (25% of 16 others)
- What does it try to remove? content about AI (the topic) (13% of 16 others)
- How does it mainly decide what to flag? a mix of several of these (13% of 16 others)
- What happens to flagged content by default? ranked lower (13% of 16 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (94% of 16 others)
- How is it mainly sustained? individual side project, no revenue (50% of 16 others)
- Once you start using it, is filtering or labeling on by default? yes, on by default (69% of 16 others)
- In the default setup, how do users mainly pay for it? free, no paid option (56% of 16 others)
- Does it publish its verdicts for others to reuse (a list, dataset, feed, or API)? no (69% of 16 others)
Nearest neighbors
- hcker.news (AI filter) 71% of 17 shared answers match
- Hacker News AI Detector (Salah Adawi) 59% of 17 shared answers match
- unslop.news 59% of 17 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | proprietary or closed source No license or source repo found; users can edit the feed's code in the browser. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | individual side project, no revenue Maker: 'part of a much larger project ... working on, on and off, for almost 4 years.' No pricing found; judgment call. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | no, it needs the maker's servers | source 2026-10-26 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | stands apart optional account Public feed is readable logged out; log in to see and edit ranking parameters. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | both 'Hackable Hacker News ... where you can edit the algorithm.' | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | stands apart none of these (its own format or interface) Own text matching and embeddings. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What does it try to remove? | stands apart content about AI (the topic) | source 2026-10-26 |
| How does it mainly decide what to flag? | stands apart a mix of several of these 'string text matching + embeddings'. | source 2026-10-26 |
| In the default setup, where is each item judged? | on the maker's server | source 2026-10-26 |
| What happens to flagged content by default? | stands apart ranked lower 'reduced priority for AI driven content'. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which place does it mainly cover? | Hacker News Sprinklz itself also covers news, blogs and YouTube; answered for the HN feed. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What form does it take? | an alternative website or reader app | source 2026-10-26 |
| Once you start using it, is filtering or labeling on by default? | yes, on by default | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can you correct a wrong verdict? | yes, for yourself only (show anyway, threshold, allowlist) Logged-in users can edit all ranking params. | source 2026-10-26 |
| In the default setup, how do users mainly pay for it? | free, no paid option No paid plan seen. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it publish its verdicts for others to reuse (a list, dataset, feed, or API)? | no | source 2026-10-26 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- Hacker News · news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186767 · collected 2026-10-26
- Web page · sprinklz.io/ · collected 2026-10-26
- Web page · sprinklz.io/public/nncrnx74ykir · read 2026-10-25
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