Feels like it “RSS-ified” a given website, which is a good vibe. Something like this baked into RSS-Bridge or some other feed curation platform could be a great way to ingest websites that lack RSS feeds themselves, especially if the codebase can run locally.
Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
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#22How about a plugin that turns every website into something formatted like Hackernews and even rewrites comments to sound more like Hackernews people.
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#23When a page has that much BS on it, is there actually anything worth reading?
I interpret a click bait title as having nothing to offer at all. On the off chance that there is something there, it will almost certainly be repeated elsewhere with less cruft.
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#24One data-point, tested on a recipe website ( https://prettysimplesweet.com/french-toast ) and got what I was looking for without the fluff. How about the ability parametrize with the target URL? Something like https://cut-the-crab.streamlit.app/[TARGET_URL] ?
Isn't this shortsighted in the sense that it removes all incentive for the creators to create?
A pre-click quality signal is more interesting and fair I imagine. Though I don't know how one can build a solution that is not game-able.
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#25The irony of AI removing AI content. I used this for my marketing generation (using AI of course) real estate business and it misinterpreted examples as the actual listings.
Also if you use Https instead of https in the url field it gives an error…
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#26It summarized my website pretty well :)
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#27I don't understand what "AI" is referring to here. Seems like it's removing useless fillers in general, which makes the title underselling it. I thought it was a service removing AI images or something, which wouldn't be that interesting.
Yes, that's true - actually i meant distilling the key points from articles and removing AI generated SEO fillers among other things
So then isn’t it easier to just summarise? I realise this wouldn’t be as novel and is kind of a solved problem.
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#28Using a bullshit generator to remove bullshit seems questionable. That said I sympathize with your frustration over the flood of pure garbage that's drown the web.
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#29I completely share your frustration with filler content and the tedious hunt for actual "news." (It speaks volumes about the state of the news industry—declining subscriptions, the normalization of clickbait, and a focus on quantity over quality.)
However, relying on AI as a solution has its own pitfalls: Even state-of-the-art models frequently generate inaccuracies and hallucinations, which raises questions about whether AI truly adds value if the extracted "information nugget" truly is what the original's essence is about or just another layer of BS.
Re: Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites
#30I don't understand what "AI" is referring to here. Seems like it's removing useless fillers in general, which makes the title underselling it. I thought it was a service removing AI images or something, which wouldn't be that interesting.
Yes, that's true - actually i meant distilling the key points from articles and removing AI generated SEO fillers among other things
> removing AI generated SEO fillers
We had SEO filler rubbish before we had AI.
Is it actually looking for AI at all or was this just included as the current buzzword.