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Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

92 points by weird_trousers ↗ HN
I am done with articles stating "I used this LLM to do that", or "Look, this agent did that in 2 minutes!". I want content more user-centric, less openai / anthropic, and more "human-in-the-loop" articles.

Any other website to recommend? I think lobste.rs was a good hacker news aggregator, but I don't know if it is still relevant today...

UPDATE:

Some recommendations, provided by the answers:

- https://hackaday.com/ - https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude - https://lobste.rs/

Related discussions

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713041 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567155

23 comments

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not_your_vase
Maybe there could be an AI-generated HN mirror: the AI would monitor HN continuously, and filter out the AI related news. Fight fire with fire.
KenographerPrim
Good luck with that. If something is easily accessible, it will be accessed by easy people, and if it can flood a platform, it will. Easy people don't care. Easy people will never care.
PaulHoule
I think the interesting thing is that if you look at /new, actually the community and moderation system is already holding back a fantastic volume of AI slop and “slop about AI”. It would be fair to say “HN has too much stuff about AI” and “the HN community is hostile/skeptical of AI”, in fact you hear both in the comments all the time.
dmitrygr
Just wait a year. It will die down just like crypto and NFTs did. Hype goes in cycles.
psvv
You could try a browser extension that just filters all terms like LLM, AI, agent, agentic and removes those posts.

Or better yet, call back to a certain classic and replace those words with "butt" and keep them in.

Then your front page will simply be filled with things like:

"Show HN: Look what I did with my butt."

"This new butt harness will revolutionize butt coding."

sublinear
You might want to refine your question. The real problem is the author not having something interesting to say in their own voice. The lack of perspective and insight to share is disrespectful to the reader.

With this broader definition, you'll find there's a ton of other slop we've long since needed to clean up. It's one thing to at least share something mildly interesting, but there's still a lot of points farming and ragebait that has brought down the enjoyability of reading HN.

smokel
There are very few sites such as Hacker News around. Looking for one that is similar in quality, but with a slightly different focus is going to be disappointing.

Perhaps it helps to consider why you'd exactly want this? You may be better off not visiting any such site, and instead focus on real human-in-the-loop activities with a group of local hackers.

inigyou
maybe chaos.social mastodon server? You can follow it through relay.fedi.buzx if you can't actually join it.
miloignis
Lobste.rs is very much still active, more than ever I think. They have a `vibecoding` tag that you can remove from your page, if you'd like.
summarybot
You could always... vibecode your own :)
schmookeeg
I've noticed myself and several colleagues have all taken to making little SaaS's for sport -- I'm not sure WHY we've all done that, but it's totally a thing.

Maybe if there was a monthly "Show us your (project/vibe/slop)" thread, it would provide a centralized spot for it all, then you could ignore it, once, at leisure, instead of the filters working overtime. :)

syngrog66
YC and related VC are all-in on AI. they're simply talking up their book. VC cash is fueling all of this bubble, directly or indirectly.

The pop and deflation may have already started...

PaiDxng
The useful AI writing is usually about changed workflows, not “look what this agent did in 2 minutes”; I’d read more pieces that start from the user’s friction.