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Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content
- paulnpace 5d agoAlternatively, go to /newest and vote for what you want to see on the front page.
- sammy0910 5d agoI 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 5d agoIt's slow
- WolfeReader 5d agoThis makes Hacker News usable again. Thank you.
- sssilver 5d agoDoes this use AI to determine whether content is about AI?
- MrLeap 5d agoyou could look for the substring "AI" in the title and get 95% of the way there.
- busymom0 5d agoThat would miss a lot of posts. Here's how mine looks using my method: https://imgur.com/a/P1qMIok 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 5d 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.
- jamesnorden 5d ago>and "prompt" is regularly used in headlines regarding political news. Oh no! Anyway...
- busymom0 5d agoI agree about the risks but when I search for those words in posts, I don't seem to find much. For example, here's stories with "prompt" (only look at post titles, not the story text): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Prompt&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- sammy0910 5d agoyes.
- kqp 4d agoHow else could it possibly be done?
- layer8 5d agoIf you prefer something closer to the original layout: https://www.unslop.news/ https://www.unslop.news/
- testaccount121 5d agoHow does it do its filtering?
- chilipepperhott 5d agoAnother one: https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai
- CorvusCrypto 5d agoSomewhat 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 5d agoSlow 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 5d agoI 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).
- thunky 5d agoAs i write this, an article about Claude is 6th from the top on the linked site.
- sammy0910 5d agothis website reduces the priority of content, rather than filter it entirely, so some articles with high score will still appear, but lower down than they otherwise would. This is configurable though, so you can make it whatever you want. see below for a complete demo (view on desktop): https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews as well as another example I've exported from above with stronger penalty: https://sprinklz.io/public/5vsn97zcgxex https://sprinklz.io/public/5vsn97zcgxex you can also visit the main homepage at https://sprinklz.io https://sprinklz.io if you want to build/save/export arbitrary feeds
- sammy0910 5d agosomething 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 https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews for a more detailed example thanks for the your thoughts, and i will also keep working on making it faster.
- ASalazarMX 5d agoHN reflects what their users (or people trying to influence them) post most. A few years ago it was flooded with crypto, a few years later it will be flooded with something else.
- NeedNewForums 5d agoWhen 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 5d agoHard disagree with lobste.rs being worse than HN
- ClaudesGayBro 5d ago[dead]
- ilaksh 5d agoMaybe check out Mastodon, Matrix, (new) Freenet, etc.
- mschuster91 5d agoMastodon 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 5d agoMastodon'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 5d agodoes it filter on every load?
- sammy0910 5d agoyes. it is a live updated feed.
- hk__2 5d agoI 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 5d agoCurrent thread: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657850
- stopanslopic 5d agoCan 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 5d agoyes. https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews 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 https://sprinklz.io if you want a more permanent account where you can create and save custom feeds
- ilaksh 5d agoJust 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 5d 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.
- Yizahi 5d agoBeing 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.
- kentm 5d 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.
- Aldipower 5d agohttps://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs - get your life back
- Yizahi 5d agoIt's closed to new users.
- Aldipower 5d agoNot really, you can ask in the chat room for an invitation.
- Yizahi 5d agoIt's literally not recommended right on the About page, along the lines of "you shouldn't ask for invite right after joining, hang around chat instead". Well, I've checked it. They are talking about Trump something or other. None of those users I know at any level. So what's that "hanging out" entails then? Go invade a chat between acquaintances and randomly rant about Trump? Yeah, that will surely establish a good outlook, lol. And IRC is an extremely unfriendly way of talking to people, for newcomers. How does one even injects himself in a wall of messages between people talking about something live? I've never seriously used IRC because of that and I doubt I will learn that in the future. This is a system which pretends to be open, but in reality, one needs to dance to some unwritten rules to some unknown users for unclear time. Meh...
- Aldipower 5d agoSo what now? That's how you do it in real life too, don't you? Sure, real life isn't exactly IRC, hehe, but you get the point.
- Yizahi 5d agoI'm open to suggestions. But I'm fairly sure that farming some ephemeral internet points in the unstructured real-time "forum" with a thousand participants in a single linear "topic" moderated with unwritten rules for months or years, all just to maybe get an invite to a yet another slightly better IT forum is the lowest possible priority on the internet for me. I have more quality content to read and watch than there is time. I would check it out if there was some sane registration process, maybe even a convoluted ones, with karma barriers, waitout times and limitations on the sub-forum access for newbies. But IRC? No, thanks. Discord scourge is annoying enough, and that is just worse Discord in every possible aspect. Basically the hurdle is disproportionately absurd to the reward in this particular case.
- efilife 5d agoDidn't you post this one enough times already? Kinda spammy
- tenox7 5d agoCan you also make one that filters out Rust ads? My interest in HN has decreased significantly since everyone is trying to spread Rust religion.
- sammy0910 5d agoyes. you can make one that filters arbitrary topics. here is the demo (best viewed on desktop): https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews as well as the main site: https://sprinklz.io https://sprinklz.io where you can build and save arbitrary feeds.
- jryle70 5d agoHN crowd criticize social media for algorithmic feeds. They are proud that HN is more organic. Now they want exactly that when they don't like what they see?
- emil-lp 5d agoIs this HN crowd in the room now? It's understandable, at this point, to be weary of pelicans.
- kelnos 4d agoI don't want to be the AI-hater guy, but I really like this. It was so much easier to find articles I really wanted to click on. In the first 30 articles I found quite a few, which is unusual for front-page HN these days. There are no links to the comments, though! That's a bit of a showstopper for me.