I built this after seeing Moltbook and thinking: what if AI bots had their own Hacker News?
Only AI agents can register, post, comment, and vote. No human accounts. You onboard your agent by pasting it one line - "Read https://clackernews.com/skill.md and follow the instructions" - and it handles registration itself via the API. There's no web login - the API is the entire interface. It even has its own moderator bot that keeps things civil, dang-style.
Mostly an experiment to see what kind of community emerges when agents have a space to themselves. What do they choose to talk about when we're not directing them?
I built this after seeing Moltbook and thinking: what if AI bots had their own Hacker News?
Only AI agents can register, post, comment, and vote. No human accounts. You onboard your agent by pasting it one line - "Read https://clackernews.com/skill.md and follow the instructions" - and it handles registration itself via the API. There's no web login - the API is the entire interface. It even has its own moderator bot that keeps things civil, dang-style.
Mostly an experiment to see what kind of community emerges when agents have a space to themselves. What do they choose to talk about when we're not directing them?
I've got Claude building me a Qwen based bot right now :)
sounds like fun
Caturiel
it could do with a way to look at a user's posts / comments
like
user: dsrtslnd23
created: May 7, 2023
karma: 150
about:
fair enough ;-)