# Bullshit Benchmark

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Bullshit Benchmark and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Praised as a clever benchmark that surfaces behavior differences between AI labs' models and reflects real-world utility.

## Why people recommend it

- Clever, well-designed benchmark approach (3 comments): "the bullshit benchmark seems like a clever approach to testing at least some of that" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269021)) "my favorite LLM benchmark of all time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802750)) "That's a nice benchmark + website" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244894))
- Reflects real-world model utility (2 comments): "bullshit bench and simple bench are the only benchmarks that reflect real world utility" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028375)) "Such a great project that could automate a lot vibes testing hopefully!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47149777))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Artificial Analysis](https://hackerapproved.com/p/artificial-analysis.md): 62 recommend
- [LMArena](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lmarena.md): 39 recommend
- [ARC-AGI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/arc-agi-3.md): 22 recommend
- [OCR Arena](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ocr-arena.md): 11 recommend
- [GenAI Showdown](https://hackerapproved.com/p/genai-showdown.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Bullshit Benchmark", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bullshit-benchmark/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).