What I measured after Hacker News broke my LLM agent gate
September 15, 2026 What I Measured After Hacker News Broke My LLM Agent Gate On July 16 I put ReasonGate on Show HN. It got seven points and eleven comments, and the comments were better than the post. One person produced a working bypass; "super quickly", he said, and it was.
- ▪September 15, 2026 What I Measured After Hacker News Broke My LLM Agent Gate On July 16 I put ReasonGate on Show HN.
- ▪It got seven points and eleven comments, and the comments were better than the post.
- ▪One person produced a working bypass; "super quickly", he said, and it was.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 5,083 of its stories.
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| Original publisher | Cagritemel |
| Canonical URL | https://cagritemel.com/blog/hn-broke-my-llm-agent-gate.html |
| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:09:52 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-15T22:16:52.605Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-15T22:16:52.605Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 55NwOdoTtMYI · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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September 15, 2026 What I Measured After Hacker News Broke My LLM Agent Gate On July 16 I put ReasonGate on Show HN. It got seven points and eleven comments, and the comments were better than the post. One person produced a working bypass; "super quickly", he said, and it was. Another linked to the pattern file and said a list of regular expressions did not inspire confidence in the methodology. A third said signature databases are mitigations and suggested that provenance channels might be the thing that actually works. I spent the next two months finding out how right each of them was. This is the accounting. One boundary first. Everything below was measured by me, on public data, with the harness in the repository, and every number can be re-run.
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