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  • Hacker News
  • This feels like trying to do "Hacker News, without 'the Internet.'"
    by jrm4
  • People were actually complaining specifically about OpenAI/Anthropic glazing and the countless influencer comments and posts here every hour.

    And it's getting twisted into "People want HN without AI."

    But that was never the case. I mean some surely do. But the blow-up this morning was specific to Anthropic ads to the point there's basically no information on this website that isn't related to Anthropic or OpenAI.

    If it was announced some rando kid made a LLM in PHP or something, sure share it! If it was announced someone actually made something cool with AI (lol) then share it!

    But Claude 24/7 aint it. It's at least extremely boring!

    by NeedNewForums
  • Hacker News, without AI needs to be a plugin for Firefox - I don´t really want to use two pages at the same time.
    by tcfhgj
  • If a Userscript solution is fine for you, see my recent comments :)
    by nilsherzig
  • Then just use one! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hcker-news/
    by postalcoder
  • Would if be possible to set up push notifications for new stories matching a filter - one that's separate to the main filter? Like say, I want to get notified every time an article about "Linux" is posted. But if I go to main page, I want to see all stories (or whatever my main filter is set to).
    by d3Xt3r
  • Yeah, all possible, the infra for all of that is set up. I think I understand your request but can u send me an email so I can talk it through with you a little more?
    by postalcoder
  • I quite like this, particularly that the filter is just a preset! Will be back.

    Minor UI feedback - when navigating comments (and maybe other stuff) with the keyboard, the actual focus change is blocked behind some automated scroll behavior, and the effect is that someone quickly hitting keybinds will collapse the wrong thread. Would suggest making the focus change happen concurrently.

    by mpalmer
  • Thanks for the feedback. Comment drawer nav could be a lot better. I started working on the keyboard nav but got distracted with other things. I'll fix it.
    by postalcoder
  • At this rate we would have at least new one vibe coded site like this per week trying to filter AI posts. People truly have tokens to burn
    by sajithdilshan
  • I've been serving this to users for the past year. I like to believe that i've inspired others.
    by postalcoder
  • This one actually works: https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai
    by chilipepperhott
  • I see like ten stories on this page.
    by postalcoder
  • I would love to have hn more curated.

    The AI spam is part of the issue, but not only. Maybe it's rose tinted glasses, but it feel like HN posts and comments quality have dropped significantly compared to ~5 to 10 years ago.

    It used to have a lot more really technical subjects, with comments from experts on the topic.

    Now days it seems to be a lot more of "hot takes with little nuance from people who have read at most half a Wikipedia page on the topic". And the content itself, being more generalist and less specialized, is no longer unique to HN.

    Quality posts and comments do still occur, but they fill more and more needle in an haystack.

    by kakwa_
  • This is like; during a war, when you just want to read the news without anything about the war :D
    by bronlund
  • “Keep Calm and Carry On”?

    TIL it was rare in the actual wartime (WWII) and only became popular in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On

    by armchairhacker
  • First post shown right now is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659245 which is essentially an ad for an AI company. So I guess this will need further fine tuning.
    by account42
  • Maybe use AI to filter the posts? :)
    by amelius
  • Here's how mine looks using my method:

    https://imgur.com/a/P1qMIok

    9 out of 30 posts have been removed.

    Steps:

    Install uBlock Origin Lite. Then create a custom filter:

        news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a:has-text(/\b(?:A\.?I\.?|A\.?G\.?I\.?|LLMs?|GPTs?|TPU|NPU|RAG|MoE|RLHF|xAI)\b|Anthropic|agent|super-?intelligence|Blackwell|Cerebras|ChatGPT|Claude|Cohere|Command\s*R|Context\s*window|Copilot|Cursor|DALL-E|deep\s*learning|DeepSeek|ElevenLabs|Fine-tun(?:e|ing)|Flux|Gemini|GenAI|Generative|Gemma|Grok|Groq|H100|Hallucination|harness(?:es)?|Hugging\s*Face|LangChain|Llama|LlamaIndex|Midjourney|Mistral|Ollama|OpenAI|OpenRouter|Perplexity|prompt|Qwen|Runway\s*(?:AI|ML)|Gen-[1-4](?:\.5)?|Sora|Synthetic\s*data|token|vibecod|vLLM|Whisper/i)):xpath(. | following-sibling::tr[1])
    Any improvements to above filter are welcome.
    by busymom0
  • Here is an approach to filtering LLM written content: https://hnslop.nilsherzig.com/

    Instead of filtering keywords this ranks the content using Pangram. But it's also pretty effective at filtering content about AI. Turns out that a lot of LLM tooling projects have LLM written project descriptions/blog posts.

    It's amazing to see how many of the "AI hurts my brain" posts are apparently written by an LLM.

    by nilsherzig
  • Nice! I was considering doing this but the Pangram API is very expensive. Then I considered training my own model and I fortunately stopped at the edge of that rabbit hole.
    by postalcoder
  • nvm sorry, just read the "how this works" comment from OP. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660301

    OPs solution does more than keyword filtering. But its still about filtering out "content about ai" not filtering out "ai written content".

    by nilsherzig
  • If you prefer something closer to the original layout: https://www.unslop.news/
    by layer8
  • Help me out here. Is AI something prevalent on HN now? I check the site a lot but just browse headlines and visit some sites.
    by WarcrimeActual
  • Thank you for sharing my site :)
    by otherayden
  • I like the idea, but have a couple problems:

    * It filters out things that are clearly not AI related (like the one titled ' Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization ') - or maybe it's just slow to update (that post was 3 hours ago)

    * No ability to go to the next page

    * Order is often different than on HN, even account for the missing posts. It's mostly the same, but not quite, which always throws me for a loop to see if something else is missing.

    by Night_Thastus
  • For Hacker News without AI, can I suggest the domain of news.ycombntor.com ?
    by dorkrawk
  • Took me a while to get this one.
    by ant6n
  • Behold, the power of suggestion: https://news.ycombntor.com
    by postalcoder