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The 8088
Curated AI news, ranked by a local LLM (no cloud)
The 8088 is a nightly AI news aggregator. Every article is summarized, scored for significance, and analyzed for sentiment by a Gemma 4 running locally on my home mad scientist lab — absolutely zero cloud LLM spend. Beyond the feed: entity tracking, prediction extraction, a "wave" score for spiking categories, a StockPulse view tying tickers to coverage volume, and a tracker for AI thought leadership from the major consulting firms. Plus a fantasy AI league, because why not.
Hey Product Hunt — maker here.
I built The 8088 because the AI news firehose was breaking my brain.
Every morning was 50+ tabs of half-skimmed tweets, blog posts, and press releases — and I still felt behind. I wanted three things no aggregator I tried gave me:
1. Real curation. Not "more articles" — significance scoring. Did this matter? Rated by an LLM, not a popularity heuristic.
2. More than headlines. Which companies and people are showing up?
Which categories are spiking? Which predictions came true? Same
article enrichment, five different views over one DB.
3. No cloud LLM bill. Every summary, score, sentiment read, and entity extraction is done by Gemma 4 26B running on a server in
my home (vLLM, nightly systemd timer, static site rsync'd to shared hosting). Marginal cost per article: electricity.
How the approach evolved: started as a single feed page. Then I realized the same enrichment data could power totally different products — so I added entity tracking, then a StockPulse view, then a "what are McKinsey/BCG/Deloitte writing about AI" tracker, then a fantasy league where you draft AI companies and compete weekly on whose news category gets the most coverage. Half-joke, half-real.
It's named after the Intel 8088 — the chipset on the first PC I used. The "running it locally" thread is the throughline.
Would love feedback on what's useful, what's missing, and what to kill. Especially curious what people think of the significance score — that's the hardest part to get right.
About The 8088 on Product Hunt
“Curated AI news, ranked by a local LLM (no cloud)”
The 8088 was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #143 on the daily leaderboard. The 8088 is a nightly AI news aggregator. Every article is summarized, scored for significance, and analyzed for sentiment by a Gemma 4 running locally on my home mad scientist lab — absolutely zero cloud LLM spend. Beyond the feed: entity tracking, prediction extraction, a "wave" score for spiking categories, a StockPulse view tying tickers to coverage volume, and a tracker for AI thought leadership from the major consulting firms. Plus a fantasy AI league, because why not.
On the analytics side, The 8088 competes within News, Open Source and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 572.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how The 8088 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted The 8088?
The 8088 was hunted by Chad Paulin. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of The 8088 including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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