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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.
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On the front page:

  Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI (unslop.news)
  21 points by otherayden 1 hour ago | hide | 8 comments
 
  Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content (sprinklz.io)
  66 points by sammy0910 1 hour ago | hide | 41 comments

  Show HN: Hacker News, without AI (hcker.news)
  108 points by postalcoder 2 hours ago | hide | 66 comments
Three anti AI HN things on the front page at the same time. Two with the same title. This is spam.
I think it's useful, and maybe an indication of something positive.
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?
It is espically god for AI researchers like me, is there any other resource, if you knowe would love to explore it
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.

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
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.
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.
touch grass
i suppose the correct retort would be to advise you to get your head out of it.
Submissions of articles written by AI should be flagged on the upstream HN, as should be comments written by AI.
Ngl it would be kinda fun for everyone to meme with each other on slop mode in slop threads
Huh... it's not even that hard of a problem to solve right? Maybe I'm insane, but I feel like this is easier to crank out in rails or something than sloppin' it. It's a singular page, with some filtering on one model + a job to add entries on a regular basis with an API call out to openanthrogemingptai.

We do get the the pinnicle of software quality though: parsing HTML with regex. https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai/blob/007e7b4a6df6...

lol it works though doesn't it?
Oh I'm just saying this would be faster to make with a framework and... traditional coding or whatever I'm told to call my job now.

If you're talking about parsing HTML with regex... buddy that IS the pinnacle of software quality. I'm sure... nay convinced, that HTML is fully parseable with regular expressions. We were just waiting for one very special boy to ask Claude for it, and today, the world hath received the fruits from a tree we planted long ago... thank you.

Yes please, take all the bleeding edge tech stories out of the aggregator I go to for bleeding edge tech stories.
Yes, bleeding edge tech story = tech story primarily focused on AI
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.

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.

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.

I feel like simple tagging system for hn submissions would fix that. A couple of predefined tags - single submissions should have at least one tag. User can define list of tags they want to follow and that's it.
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".
If only we could put all new stories into a single feed and have some sort of mechanism to determine what the community considers interesting.
This "community" is clearly not a monolith.
“Tech stories” = Nth OpenAI/Anthropic press release or LLM-generated thought piece. Such enrichment, much learning.
links at the top e.g. show redirect to the regular site, i presume they are supposed to go to a filtered version
Kind of funny that currently the number 1 article is a Show HN for an AI vibe coded slop terminal program.
Without AI, using AI to accomplish it's goal. And built using AI.

My friends we are in the future.

Just what I thought.

> made with <3 by Ayden

That's the cherry on the cake - indicating genuine effort and attention to detail put into something, yet not even checking the credit at the bottom.

So what. The unabomber used a phone sometimes
Can someone make a site to filter HN posts about apps that remove AI in HN?
Yeah unslop.news actually filters these out
this is about the 4th post I've seen today that's some variation of hacker news without AI. Maybe we need a site to aggregate these together, hn but only the hn without AI posts.
I love this so much because I hide every "Look at me, I use LLMs and it makes my toast" stories.
Great project I was thinking about doing *exactly* the same. Do you mind sharing your stack?
The upvote button seems to be broken or non-functional on unslop.news. I am running Windows 10 on a PC desktop with the latest version of MS Edge.
A few design bugs in the mobile layout (Chrome)
HN mostly depresses me these days, so I appreciate this! (nice to see vibe-coding put to good use for once)
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