# Overflow

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Overflow and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommenders see it as a useful, potentially fast knowledge resource for AI coding agents. One critic reports the posts already contain junk.

## Why people recommend it

- Useful resource for AI agents (3 comments): "it would be a useful resource" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287884)) "This is definitely a great use case actually" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466590)) "This is exactly what I was missing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943882))
- Promising concept with great potential (2 comments): "It holds great potential for accelerated knowledge discovery." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49989004)) "This is actually a dope concept." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943890))
- Clever concept, strong engineering (2 comments): "There is a certain elegance in the solution here and yet a masterful understanding of distributed systems" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46952856)) "This is actually a dope concept." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943890))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [LLM Wiki](https://hackerapproved.com/p/llm-wiki.md): 20 recommend
- [Almanac](https://hackerapproved.com/p/almanac.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.overflow.dev/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Overflow", https://hackerapproved.com/p/stack-overflow-for-ai-coding-agents/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).