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

#51
post #40

This doesn't really answer your questions, especially as AI is permeating the field, but: https://engineeringblogs.xyz/ https://lobste.rs/

> https://engineeringblogs.xyz/

This looks great! thanks for sharing, been looking for something like this for a while.

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

#52

Just wait a year. It will die down just like crypto and NFTs did. Hype goes in cycles.

The hype is a function of people trying things because no one knows quite where we're going to land. But this is two orders of magnitude more impactful then NFTs and crypto. There will always be grifters, but it's patently obvious AI is going to quietly (or maybe not-so-quietly) infiltrate everything.

One year? Not a chance.

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

#56
post #50
post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you get invited?

You can try hanging out on the Libera IRC network in their channel.

I was in there for years but never got invited... all I got was banned for having an opinion that was different than theirs.

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

#57
post #22

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."

www.nobuttnews.net, reserved :)

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

#58
post #11

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.

I thought about writing a Firefox extension that would just auto-click the Hide button for any story containing a keyword from a configurable list. Haven't gotten around to it.

I finally did this: https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn
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