Yet another Hacker News

Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content

59 points sammy0910 1 hour ago 37 comments

sammy0910 1 hour ago | parent

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 16 minutes ago | parent

It's slow

WolfeReader 59 minutes ago | parent

This makes Hacker News usable again. Thank you.

sssilver 59 minutes ago | parent

Does this use AI to determine whether content is about AI?

MrLeap 56 minutes ago | parent

you could look for the substring "AI" in the title and get 95% of the way there.

busymom0 52 minutes ago | parent

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 14 minutes ago | parent

"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 40 minutes ago | parent

yes.

layer8 59 minutes ago | parent

If you prefer something closer to the original layout: https://www.unslop.news/

testaccount121 53 minutes ago | parent

Thank you for sharing my site

efilife 19 minutes ago | parent

how does it filter posts?

user_7832 10 minutes ago | parent

There's scope for an incredibly cheeky joke about AI here... but I'll hold myself back :)

chilipepperhott 58 minutes ago | parent

Another one: https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai

CorvusCrypto 43 minutes ago | parent

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.

bibelo 55 minutes ago | parent

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

NeedNewForums 53 minutes ago | parent

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).

sammy0910 34 minutes ago | parent

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 54 minutes ago | parent

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.

otherayden 50 minutes ago | parent

Hard disagree with lobste.rs being worse than HN

ClaudesGayBro 39 minutes ago | parent

Top post there right now is by user maurycy (https://lobste.rs/~maurycy)

Also a HN user (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maurycy)

Same shit

ilaksh 45 minutes ago | parent

Maybe check out Mastodon, Matrix, (new) Freenet, etc.

mschuster91 12 minutes ago | parent

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...

Yizahi 7 minutes ago | parent

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.

ramon156 54 minutes ago | parent

does it filter on every load?

sammy0910 31 minutes ago | parent

yes. it is a live updated feed.

hk__2 54 minutes ago | parent

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.

ChrisArchitect 48 minutes ago | parent

Current thread:

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

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

stopanslopic 44 minutes ago | parent

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.

sammy0910 32 minutes ago | parent

yes.

https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews

here is a more detailed demo link (best viewed on desktop).

you can also visit the homepage at https://sprinklz.io if you want a more permanent account where you can create and save custom feeds

ilaksh 36 minutes ago | parent

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.

iooi 27 minutes ago | parent

> 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.

kentm 18 minutes ago | parent

> 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 17 minutes ago | parent

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.

Aldipower 34 minutes ago | parent

https://lobste.rs - get your life back

Yizahi 15 minutes ago | parent

It's closed to new users.

subarctic 5 minutes ago | parent

It's been down for me for a few days now

efilife 18 minutes ago | parent

Didn't you post this one enough times already? Kinda spammy