YHK - yet another hacker news clone

Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI

94 points otherayden 3 hours ago 37 comments

ChrisArchitect 3 hours ago | parent

Current thread:

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

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

metalliqaz 2 hours ago | parent

It would be funny if this was vibe coded.

otherayden 2 hours ago | parent

hehe

ethmarks 1 hour ago | parent

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

nilsherzig 1 hour ago | parent

"Made with <3 by ..." Yea it is

otherayden 1 hour ago | parent

I did this on purpose, I do not think AI would leave that in lol

bana-io 1 hour ago | parent

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.

nphardon 1 hour ago | parent

This is the first attempt I've seen that seems to be working. I like that it's just a acting as a filter and the comment section is linked to the hackernews source. It's really satisfying to not see any Ai bs. I do like how hackernews is limited to 30 front page posts.

testaccount121 1 hour ago | parent

On the front page:

  Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI (unslop.news)
  Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content (sprinklz.io)
  Show HN: Hacker News, without AI (hcker.news)
Three anti AI HN things on the front page at the same time. Two with the same title. This is spam.

jefurii 1 hour ago | parent

I think it's useful, and maybe an indication of something positive.

kazinator 54 minutes ago | parent

But have you heard of https://unslop.news? If you look at HN through that, the above AI-related spam disappears.

allknowingfrog 49 minutes ago | parent

Or maybe it reflects a genuine desire from some subset of regular HN readers? Is it spam when three different articles about the latest Anthropic model make the front page? Or the latest Apple product release?

teiferer 1 hour ago | parent

Currently there is an article about feeling sad w.r.t. AI on the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661506 That one is filtered out too. Surely nobody is going to claim that it is slop?

drusepth 1 hour ago | parent

I mean, that post /is/ entirely about AI.

The "I love AI" posts are just as bad as the "I hate AI" posts, and the same "this is my opinion on AI" posts are as bad as the onslaught of poorly-AI-vibed demo posts. Makes sense to filter them all out IMO.

lukan 1 hour ago | parent

Agreed, but filtering still mostly works by people upvoting or flagging.

bhanu786 1 hour ago | parent

It is espically god for AI researchers like me, is there any other resource, if you knowe would love to explore it

gnfargbl 1 hour ago | parent

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.

otherayden 1 hour ago | parent

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

evgenysokov 1 hour ago | parent

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.

elif 1 hour ago | parent

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.

otherayden 57 minutes ago | parent

touch grass

elif 41 minutes ago | parent

i suppose the correct retort would be to advise you to get your head out of it.

kazinator 57 minutes ago | parent

Submissions of articles written by AI should be flagged on the upstream HN, as should be comments written by AI.

nilsherzig 10 minutes ago | parent

There you go :) https://hnslop.nilsherzig.com/

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

Tubelord 1 hour ago | parent

unslop.news IS slop btw: https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai

bnchrch 1 hour ago | parent

Yes please, take all the bleeding edge tech stories out of the aggregator I go to for bleeding edge tech stories.

otherayden 59 minutes ago | parent

Yes, bleeding edge tech story = tech story primarily focused on AI

Plont 34 minutes ago | parent

I was unaware that technological progress stopped for everything but LLMs. All other types of technology have achieved their final forms. Wow.

Seriously though, every AI story feels the same lately. There's:

1. company wants or gets more compute 2. IPO 3. AI slop is bad 4. AI Company Executive says something batshit (often because IPO)

It's gotten pretty boring to read more than the headline for most of these. It doesn't feel bleeding edge so much as repetitive.

Plont 8 minutes ago | parent

I was unaware that technological progress stopped for everything but LLMs. All other types of technology have achieved their final forms. Wow.

Seriously though, every AI story feels the same lately. There's:

1. company wants or gets more compute 2. IPO 3. AI slop is bad 4. AI company executive says something batshit (often because IPO)

It's gotten pretty boring to read more than the headline for most of these.

zephyrthenoble 57 minutes ago | parent

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.

deniska 41 minutes ago | parent

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".

kazinator 59 minutes ago | parent

It has filtered itself out!

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

otherayden 47 minutes ago | parent

as it should lol

0gs 42 minutes ago | parent

links at the top e.g. show redirect to the regular site, i presume they are supposed to go to a filtered version

greenowl 17 minutes ago | parent

Kind of funny that currently the number 1 article is a Show HN for an AI vibe coded slop terminal program.

karim79 15 minutes ago | parent

Without AI, using AI to accomplish it's goal. And built using AI.

My friends we are in the future.

burnt-resistor 10 minutes ago | parent

I love this so much because I hide every "Look at me, I use LLMs and it makes my toast" stories.