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  • Does "without AI" mean without posts about AI, or without posts written by AI?

    I think this is the former, but I want the latter.

    by gnfargbl
  • I'm the creator, and it is the former. I will consider spending some money on one of the available "AI detector" APIs and making a similar site for the latter. My main problem with them, though, is that I don't think they work very well and even if they work now, I imagine they'd be perpetually behind the newest models
    by otherayden
  • The upvote button seems to be broken or non-functional on unslop.news. I am running Windows 10 on a PC desktop with the latest version of MS Edge.
    by japaget
  • That's intentional. It's a design choice. Get with the programme.
    by karim79
  • Adding this as an issue, will fix tonight! Edit: I'm realizing to get the upvotes to work I actually need an auth token for the user's HN account so it will have to be a redirect to the HN thread rather than a functional upvote button, but I am going to keep it to stick with the HN design
    by otherayden
  • Appreciate the thought; it's essential to keep us alive in engineering! It is understood; AI exist; that's not the only news :)
    by sriyapaka
  • It would be funny if this was vibe coded.
    by metalliqaz
  • hehe
    by otherayden
  • "Made with <3 by ..." Yea it is
    by nilsherzig
  • It is

    > Ironically, this project was built with AI coding and uses AI to filter out articles about AI. Go figure.

    https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai

    by ethmarks
  • I actually like the look of this, I especially like being able to set a serif font instead of whatever default is on https://news.ycombinator.com.
    by bana-io
  • Heh I was thinking for a while about a similar pet project but I would remove the political/mainstream news rage bait, especially the stuff that is more or less unrelated to technology. AI news are still tech news
    by sershe
  • Feel free to fork this then! https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai It uses an LLM to categorize posts as ai or not, so you can just use a different prompt to filter out whatever you don't want (e.g "Respond with only true or false. true if the following post content is primarily political and false otherwise)
    by otherayden
  • I love this so much because I hide every "Look at me, I use LLMs and it makes my toast" stories.
    by burnt-resistor
  • To me this sounds very welcome. I'm continually scanning and skipping over any HN articles concerning A.I. and LLMs.

    Having a site (or even a setting in HN) that does this for me is great!

    by hn_submit
  • Yes please, take all the bleeding edge tech stories out of the aggregator I go to for bleeding edge tech stories.
    by bnchrch
  • Yes, bleeding edge tech story = tech story primarily focused on AI
    by otherayden
  • “Tech stories” = Nth OpenAI/Anthropic press release or LLM-generated thought piece. Such enrichment, much learning.
    by archagon
  • While I get what you are saying, from my perspective, there is no longer the same breadth of content on HN, with LLM related content taking up a significant portion of the top posts. Today is actually a pretty good day, with I think 7/30 being LLM related.

    I just don't like having to dig through multiple pages of LLM posts to find other types of tech news. Even if I do read a few here or there, I can't filter them out to look for other stuff. There is other tech out there beyond AI.

    by zephyrthenoble
  • The majority of links about "AI" are not really interesting. "New model released, people who want to avoid thinking can now avoid 7% more thinking according to NoThink benchmark". The top comment: "look at the SVG of a pelican they overfit the model on this time".
    by deniska
  • It has filtered itself out!

    "Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI" is front page on news.ycombinator.com, absent on unslop.news.

    by kazinator
  • as it should lol
    by otherayden
  • This is a filter for articles about AI, not articles written by AI. I'd actually use the latter. As for the "no AI here" badge, people will soon just put it up themselves. Like llms.txt: you add it, and nobody checks.
    by evgenysokov
  • to certain people, it's all one-in-the-same. the real motivations behind this are a kind of existential human narcissism, a kind of denial-based coping mechanism grounded in a world-view that this industrial-revolution-scale change on society is somehow a passing phase.
    by elif
  • There you go :) https://hnslop.nilsherzig.com/

    as an extension so you can continue to comment and use hn as usual

    by nilsherzig
  • Submissions of articles written by AI should be flagged on the upstream HN, as should be comments written by AI.
    by kazinator
  • Without AI, using AI to accomplish it's goal. And built using AI.

    My friends we are in the future.

    by karim79
  • Can someone make a site to filter HN posts about apps that remove AI in HN?
    by xtracto
  • So what. The unabomber used a phone sometimes
    by shoobiedoo
  • Just what I thought.

    > made with <3 by Ayden

    That's the cherry on the cake - indicating genuine effort and attention to detail put into something, yet not even checking the credit at the bottom.

    by ghrl