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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?"

#41
post #24

Feature request: HN could support a tag or label for categorizing a post. This would allow for filtering trivially, and creating views based on participant interest.

Someone has probably developed a personalized browser for HN.

https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news is perhaps relevant.

If someone wants to add LLM pluggable support (API endpoint target) and it’ll work on Firefox, I’m willing to kick in some fiat. “HN Copilot.”

Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

#43
post #32

I 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…

Top story: Kiro: new agentic IDE

Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

#44
If you think HN AI/LLM content is bad, try LinkedIn or X!

HN is probably the best source of informed, critical takes on AI/LLM content and that is super valuable to me. I don't think it should fork; I want the same audience to keep doing its work and having the debates :P.

Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

#45
post #27

I 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"

It could just as easily be "I don't feel like there is a place here for me anymore and I wish I had another place to go"

Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

#46
Install firefox

then install violentmonkey

then install https://salamisushi.go-here.nl

browse around as usual and it will collect all discoverable feeds.

then export the feeds as opml

then install a robust RSS aggregator

then load the opml into the aggregator

then sort the news items by pubDate

then remove the obnoxious subscriptions

this is the way

Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

#48
post #32

I 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…

This is neat, but with the given filters you autoselected (just the phrases "llm" and "ai"), of the 14 stories I see when I visit the page, 4 of them (more than 25%!) are still stories about AI. (At least one of them can't be identified by this kind of filtering because it doesn't use any AI-related words in its headline, arguably maybe two.)

Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

#49
post #32

I 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…

There's a special kind of irony to use AI to help out the people who hate AI.

It's not hypocrisy or anything negative like that, but I do find it amusing for some reason.

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