Discussion summary
Some users discuss alternative hacking news sites like Lobste.rs, which focus less on AI and more on human-centered topics. Lobste.rs is invite-only, which some find elitist, and there are concerns about platform accessibility and content quality.
What the discussion says
- Lobste.rs is preferred for human-focused hacking news.
- Invite-only status may be seen as elitist.
- Concerns about content quality and accessibility.
- Hype around AI and crypto/NFTs is cyclical.
“Lobste.rs is better for human-focused hacking news.”
“It's invite-only, which feels elitist.”
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- Hacker News
- Good luck with that. If something is easily accessible, it will be accessed by easy people, and if it can flood a platform, it will. Easy people don't care. Easy people will never care.
- I can see I've made the easy people angry ^_^ Go ahead and take those points off, it will not change my life the slightest.
- The answer to that is make it too hard for easy people.by PaulHoule
- You could always... vibecode your own :)by summarybot
- The useful AI writing is usually about changed workflows, not “look what this agent did in 2 minutes”; I’d read more pieces that start from the user’s friction.by PaiDxng
- Might come off like a flippant joke, but it might give you what you're after.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210201005447/https://news.ycom...
by tyingq - Related (with some suggestions within):
We need tech news sources which exclude AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713041
Hacker News but for independent blogs
- Try HN “classic” mode:
https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
Not completely free of AI, but it’s probably more of what you are looking for.
by csa - I find it's very similar to regular frontpage.by Cider9986
- Just wait a year. It will die down just like crypto and NFTs did. Hype goes in cycles.by dmitrygr
- The hype is a function of people trying things because no one knows quite where we're going to land. But this is two orders of magnitude more impactful then NFTs and crypto. There will always be grifters, but it's patently obvious AI is going to quietly (or maybe not-so-quietly) infiltrate everything.
One year? Not a chance.
by rpdillon - I agree with the hype argument, but the time-frame seems optimistic. We had to endure many years of crypto hype (nice way of saying lies and delusion really), and even now you have the shattered remnants pretending that everyone swoons they talk about "replacing fiat".
There will also be a next hype cycle, and they seem to be coming faster and faster, with similar people behind them. "Oh look, NVIDIA found a new way to turn the US economy into a paperclip factory, I can't wait to see what the brain trust thinks about this. Oh they dream of getting money as a result so they're all-in for the next half-decade... fabulous."
by EA-3167 - https://bubbles.town/ is fun.by willmeyers
- Hum, indeed! Thanks!
- current front page: out of 6 posts viisble, 3 are about AIby theamk
- I like a lot of things about bubbles but it seems to surface a lot of negative posts that are mainly just rants. A good chunk of articles in the daily/weekly briefings kind of feel like an indie blogging spin on the negative posts/articles you'd see a lot on microblogging sites.
It regularly surfaces some good stuff so it's working but it's also kind of depressing in ways that made me leave microblogging sites. There regularly is a lot of anti ai rants, USpol rants, the web is dead, defeatist/nihilistic posts etc in the weekly/daily digests. The entire culture section are these types of posts currently.
Makes me wonder if the use of microblogging accounts to log in is partially biasing the userbase towards that kind of writing? I don't have a solution for this though and limiting to fediverse accounts probably has some upsides too.
Ultimately bubbles still gets a big thumbs up from me but I'd love to see these kinds of posts deprioritized a bit. Outside maybe a few deeper more constructive ones that link out well I don't think they represent the best of indie blogging. Anyways if you made it this deep into my ramble I hope you have a nice week.
by rdmuser - Maybe there could be an AI-generated HN mirror: the AI would monitor HN continuously, and filter out the AI related news. Fight fire with fire.
- Ooh but then would the AI filter out discussion of itself?by dullcrisp
- Sorry for the shameless plug, but I just did something similar for displaying only substacks: https://hnsubstacks.com/. I'm pretty sure something like this can be adapted to filtering out AI news, repo here: https://github.com/ariroffe/hnsubstacks/by cartucho1
- I thought about writing a Firefox extension that would just auto-click the Hide button for any story containing a keyword from a configurable list. Haven't gotten around to it.by coldpie
- by ben30
- Oh nice, I didn't know this one. Thanks!
- There are very few sites such as Hacker News around. Looking for one that is similar in quality, but with a slightly different focus is going to be disappointing.
Perhaps it helps to consider why you'd exactly want this? You may be better off not visiting any such site, and instead focus on real human-in-the-loop activities with a group of local hackers.
by smokel - I don't do web stuff, but I wonder if one could easily create a browser extension that hides AI-centric submissions?by CoastalCoder
- You could try a browser extension that just filters all terms like LLM, AI, agent, agentic and removes those posts.
Or better yet, call back to a certain classic and replace those words with "butt" and keep them in.
Then your front page will simply be filled with things like:
"Show HN: Look what I did with my butt."
"This new butt harness will revolutionize butt coding."
by psvv - www.nobuttnews.net, reserved :)
- I'm not into any of those butt stuff, but I'll definitely enjoy that butt idea. Wait, what were we talking about?