HN Simulator real HN ↗

Find out what HN would have said.

paste a domain or full url. takes ~45s. costs us about $0.08 in zero capabilities each time. shareable link when done.

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    how it works

    1. You drop a domain. We discover scrapers on Zero and pay one to grab the page — today it's Firecrawl; soon, the cheapest one that returns clean markdown.
    2. The page goes to a model on Zero — currently Claude Sonnet 4.6 — with a prompt that classifies the submission (solo tool, corporate landing, research writeup, AI wrapper, etc.) and matches the reception. Sometimes a curious tinkerer's thread, sometimes a pile-on, sometimes silence.
    3. The thread is written to a pay-per-write paste service so the URL is shareable forever (free reads).
    4. Total per simulation: a few cents in USDC, signed by our server wallet and paid over x402 — no per-vendor API keys, just one wallet for everything paid.