No. Ignore the threads you do not like. Conversely start your own message board if you desire and have your own rules.
Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
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Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great example of the power of vibe coding. The first item is literally "Kiro: A new agentic IDE".
llm, ai, cuda, agent, gpt. Wish it returned more unfiltered items tho.
Isn’t knocking out CUDA going to take out a significant chunk of GPGPU stuff with it? I can see wanting to avoid AI stuff, for sure, but I can’t imagine not wanting to hear anything about the high-bandwidth half of your computer…
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#233I built you this: https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-filtered It shows you the Hacker News page with ai and llm stories filtered out. You can change the exclusion terms and save your changes in localStorage. o3 knocked it out for me in a couple of minutes: https://chatgpt.com/share/68766f42-1ec8-8006-8187-406ef452e0... Initial prompt was: Build a web tool that displays the Hacker News homepage (fetched from…
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Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#234If that happens, I would like the "non AI" side to also not allow AI-generated content. (But how would that be enforced? I don't know.)
More generally: You could think about creating "sub HNs" for AI, politics, functional programming, startups, and several other categories. You could think about having something in your settings which specified which sub-HNs would put stories on your front page, with the default being "all".
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#235I have seen this question asked on subreddits, Not about AI, but for other topics that some people dislike. They always seem to take the form of "Should we divide this group into A and B, A stays here and B goes over there and that way everybody is happy" Invariably the person who proposes this wants to remain in group A and will not be a participant in group B. To me this seems like the subtext is "Those people are…
> To me this seems like the subtext is "Those people are not welcome here, they are not like us. It's not like we have anything against them, we just don't want them ramming it down our throats" I am truly tired of AI being rammed down my throat, not just via the tech news, but in article content (slop), in un-asked-for tech product features, and at my own tech job. The solution is not to divide the community and mak…
Who’s forcing you to read the AI articles?
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#236Weird that people are floating the idea of kicking out of a tech forum the most important tech development of the last 10 years. Not sure what that means about the community, but must mean something.
The problem is the quality, not the topic. Understanding serious papers about AI development requires fairly specialist knowledge; there are plenty of people around (like myself) who have been programming for decades and can write really nice code in a bunch of different programming languages, but have very little if any mental model of "transformers" or whatever.
So in practice, "AI" content ends up revolving around people bandying about opinions about whether or not we're all doomed, or whether or not we're all on the edge of a utopia, or how much productivity programmers (and which ones) have lost or gained, or what kinds of tasks the LLMs are or are not currently or still good at, or whether anyone still cares about the fact that the term "AI" is supposed to mean something broader than LLMs + tool use.
The emergence of the "vibe coding" concept has made things worse because people will just share their blog posts about personal experiences with trying to write code that way, or flood the Show HN section with things that are basically just "I personally found this specific thing to be 'the boring stuff' that's actually relevant to me, so now I'm automating it" with a few dozen lines of AI-generated code that perhaps invokes some API to ask another AI to do something useful.
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#237Weird that people are floating the idea of kicking out of a tech forum the most important tech development of the last 10 years. Not sure what that means about the community, but must mean something.
It means there are grumpy curmudgeons in every community.
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#238It is reducing my desire to read this site. I don't have anything against the subject matter necessarily, and sometimes it can be interesting, but in large parts it is attracting very low quality discussions and content about vibe coding X product.
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Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
As annoyed as I am with the constant deluge of uninteresting AI/LLM articles, I would much rather see a split between tech and startup news. I think that's a lasting and useful distinction.
Lobste.rs provides that distinction.
A socially awkward speakeasy with deranged moderation?
Where do I sign up?
A forum that is exclusionary-by-design has already failed.
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is literally an input box to put terms you want to exclude... The prompt asks for "filters out specific search terms", not "intelligently filter out any AI-related keywords." So yes, a good example of the power of vibe coding: the LLM built a tool according to the prompt.
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If you're unable to discern that the word serves a purpose(emphasis) in that sentence, I literally don't know what to say to you.