14 comments

  • sssilver 56 minutes ago
    Does this use AI to determine whether content is about AI?
    • MrLeap 53 minutes ago
      you could look for the substring "AI" in the title and get 95% of the way there.
      • busymom0 49 minutes ago
        That would miss a lot of posts.

        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.
        • mschuster91 11 minutes ago
          "Cursor" and "Copilot" are generic words sadly that you may find in other unrelated contexts, I'd take these out, and "prompt" is regularly used in headlines regarding political news.
    • sammy0910 37 minutes ago
      yes.
  • bibelo 52 minutes ago
    Slow but necessary

    My interest in HN has decreased since it feels every other news is about AI

    However I'll use the other links provided here, as it takes 10s to display

    • sammy0910 31 minutes ago
      something that makes this website different from the others, is it lets you filter by _any_ combination of topics, and allows you to edit them live and in real time.

      see (view on desktop)

      https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews

      for a more detailed example

    • NeedNewForums 50 minutes ago
      I like AI and AI news, but can't stand the endless Anslopic Claude ads.

      All this site ever talks about is Claude. It's so annoying. We'd use it if it was good (it's not).

  • layer8 56 minutes ago
    If you prefer something closer to the original layout: https://www.unslop.news/
    • testaccount121 51 minutes ago
      Thank you for sharing my site
      • efilife 17 minutes ago
        how does it filter posts?
        • user_7832 7 minutes ago
          There's scope for an incredibly cheeky joke about AI here... but I'll hold myself back :)
  • sammy0910 1 hour ago
    I previously worked on this, but made substanital improvements to the underlying implementation, and now the filters work much better.

    This is also a general purpose tool that you can modify/customize

    • tosti 13 minutes ago
      It's slow
  • ilaksh 33 minutes ago
    Just pretending that AI doesn't exist or doesn't matter is one way to go.

    I think we might be getting close to an era where some people section off areas of land or the internet and ban AI and humanoid robots in that area. I know there are a lot of people who want that.

    The problem is that AI is getting better and better at impersonating humans.

    Eventually you may see a convergence, where the New Luddite Zoos are just more constrained variations of the normal Human Zoos. Enforced by superhuman AI.

    • kentm 16 minutes ago
      > Just pretending that AI doesn't exist or doesn't matter is one way to go.

      I don't think thats a common position on this site. It'd be more accurate to say that people want balanced content.

      I use AI quite a lot in my work, but a ton of AI content is just thinly-veiled marketing and not particularly interesting, IMO.

    • Yizahi 14 minutes ago
      Being aware about something is not the same as actively participating in that for work and is also different from doing it for education or entertainment.
    • iooi 24 minutes ago
      > I think we might be getting close to an era where some people section off areas of land or the internet and ban AI and humanoid robots in that area

      So basically we'll end up with a version of the amish that are stuck in the early 2000s instead of the 1800s.

  • hk__2 51 minutes ago
    I initially read that as "Hacker News will reduce priority for AI driven content" and was wondering why it was announced on a random website instead of this one.
  • chilipepperhott 55 minutes ago
    • CorvusCrypto 40 minutes ago
      Somewhat absurd imo seeing two of these types of sites being the top posts. But as they say the market speaks. What would be more fascinating imo is to track the average article shift from removal over time.
  • efilife 16 minutes ago
    Didn't you post this one enough times already? Kinda spammy
  • WolfeReader 57 minutes ago
    This makes Hacker News usable again. Thank you.
  • ramon156 51 minutes ago
    does it filter on every load?
    • sammy0910 28 minutes ago
      yes. it is a live updated feed.
  • stopanslopic 41 minutes ago
    Can you just do reduced priority for Anthropic?

    When people complain about the incessant Claude glazing in posts and comments totally dominating the content of the site - it always gets twisted into “people don’t like AI”

    But really we are just sick of the fucking Claude ads. It’s non-stop. Should be illegal how much those fuckers advertise.

  • ChrisArchitect 45 minutes ago
    Current thread:

    Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657850

  • NeedNewForums 51 minutes ago
    When people ask for alternatives, I think they mean a different admin/investor behind the scenes too.

    Reddit and HN share the same investors.

    Unslop.news is still HN content and users.

    Lobsters is like invite-only HN - maybe even more insufferable than this place in that regard.

    People want something new, not the same corrupt people like Garry Tan and PG all the time.

    I'm sick of YC and HN - they are barely technical and invest only in rich kids from other countries.

    I personally want something entirely new - new admins.

    • ilaksh 42 minutes ago
      Maybe check out Mastodon, Matrix, (new) Freenet, etc.
      • Yizahi 5 minutes ago
        Mastodon's UI is horrible. At least for people who never used Xitter. Why did a new company (at a moment of Mastodon initial release) copied already ancient and by then pointless limitations? Character limit, linear feed, tags in text, no advanced formatting etc. And then there are registration problem (where to register), the retention/safety problem (what if a benevolent admin of your instance nuked your account, now what?), the discovery problem etc. I'm permanently baffled at the decision process of Mastodon developers.
      • mschuster91 9 minutes ago
        Mastodon is just as bad, it suffers from the same problem as most of the Fediverse it inspired, admins of large instances bitchfighting with one another and holding their users hostage...
    • otherayden 47 minutes ago
      Hard disagree with lobste.rs being worse than HN
  • Aldipower 31 minutes ago
    https://lobste.rs - get your life back
    • subarctic 2 minutes ago
      It's been down for me for a few days now
    • Yizahi 12 minutes ago
      It's closed to new users.