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

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Post by FroshKiller »

raincole wrote: post #64
fouronnes3 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great example of the power of vibe coding. The first item is literally "Kiro: A new agentic IDE".

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.

So I have to stay up to date on AI stories just to know what buzzwords I should filter so I don't see AI stories?

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

#73

Post by simonw »

luke-stanley wrote: post #70
simonw wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just added "agent" to the default exclusion list.

Still seeing `Kiro: A new agentic IDE` BTW.

If the filters UI at the top shows "llm, ai" instead of "llm, ai, agent" then you probably have that previous search saved in localStorage.

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

#74

Post by ChromaticPanic »

FroshKiller wrote: post #71
raincole wrote: post #64

Earlier 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.

So I have to stay up to date on AI stories just to know what buzzwords I should filter so I don't see AI stories?

That's how any filtering service works

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

#75

Post by simonw »

FroshKiller wrote: post #71
raincole wrote: post #64

Earlier 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.

So I have to stay up to date on AI stories just to know what buzzwords I should filter so I don't see AI stories?

Sounds to me like you want a deeper version of this that uses AI instead of keywords to help filter out AI stories.

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

#76

Post by raincole »

FroshKiller wrote: post #71
raincole wrote: post #64

Earlier 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.

So I have to stay up to date on AI stories just to know what buzzwords I should filter so I don't see AI stories?

...Yes? This is how this tool is coded. Machines do what one codes them to do, not what one wants them to do. If you're interested in making a more intelligent tool you can do it. This tool does exactly what @simonw says it does.

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

#77

Post by waffletower »

freedomben wrote: post #25

> I would very much like to enjoy HN the way I did years ago, as a place where I'd discover things that I never otherwise would have come across. I've had the exact same feeling a lot over the past couple years or so, and especially the last 6 months. I used to hit the front page and find 5 to 10 stories I was interested in. Exhausting those to read the second or third page wasn't common. Now I find maybe one story I…

I have a similar process, but usually scan down to 60 (as I did today). I found eight stories including this one and have tabbed them to read. I don't like rust-y koolaid myself, but would never complain that it is here, nor would I complain about seeing the word 'typescript' as it is really far from my interests. To my interest -- excellent AI related white papers, AI agent paradigms and code, model announcements etc. are regularly posted here. Of the eight I picked today, half are AI related. 4 out of 60 isn't bad if I was trying to be an artificial intelligence ostrich.

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

#78

Post by arcfour »

FroshKiller wrote: post #71
raincole wrote: post #64

Earlier 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.

So I have to stay up to date on AI stories just to know what buzzwords I should filter so I don't see AI stories?

A tool was offered that can accomplish what you want, with a very small amount of added effort on your part.

No, you do not have to "stay up to date on AI stories"—if you see one, add the keyword to the list and move on. There are not as many buzzwords as you seem to be implying, anyways.

If you are dissatisfied, you are welcome to build your own intelligent version (but I am not sure this will be straightforward without the use of AI).

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

#79

Post by steveklabnik »

jader201 wrote: post #40
delusional wrote: post #21

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> The last few times my reply was "AI is 4/30 or 5/30 of the front page, it's not such a big deal", but today it is 9/30. A bigger impact for me has been the number of mentions of AI in the comments. It's not just that a large part of the front page is dominated by LLM hype posts, it's that every single post has a least one guy near the top somehow bringing AI into the discussion. I don't even care if it's "AI will f…

> I just don't want to hear anything about AI ever again. Genuinely curious: Why? Don’t get me wrong, I upvoted this post, and would love to see AI separated out, or at least tagged (like a root comment suggests) so that I can filter them out if I want. But I can’t say I’d never want to hear anything about AI ever again (though I’m headed in that direction). What field are you in, and what are your interests, such th…

Not your parent, and not anti-AI, but I’ve seen similar things to this thread in smaller spaces I’m in.

There are some people who are having genuine crises over this stuff, some of it existential, and some of it “wow I thought my friends had some basic agreements about the world that we actually don’t,” and seeing this stuff on the regular just fans these sorts of issues.

Also, in a simpler sense, there are a limited number of homepage spots, and if you don’t want to see a topic, it effectively shrinks your homepage. If HN only showed five stories to me it would be less useful than it is now.

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