Since it seems like 80% of HN nowadays is focussed on the AI industry, I’m on the search for a good tech forum that focuses on the rest. Can you post your favourite non-AI-obsessed forum?
Ask HN: Non AI-obsessed tech forums
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#3If you are feeling overwhelmed with slop posts about ai, camp on the new page and upvote any halfway decent story about something else. Many of us would thank you if they knew.
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#4Try lobsters and probably Reddit which have a hard stance against AI.
You're right in HN heading down the path in favouring slop, constant posts and startups about AI with now 'influencers' (simonw in particular) aggressively posting and shilling AI.
With the moderators knowing that these 'influencers' and their kind violate the HN guidelines every day by purposefully linking back to their site for farming backlinks.
It might as well be called AI news.
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#5Only about 20% of front-page links are related to AI. I think it's impossible to have a productive discussion on the tech industry nowadays without AI in context.
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#6Only about 20% of front-page links are related to AI. I think it's impossible to have a productive discussion on the tech industry nowadays without AI in context.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There are far fewer posts about "politics" than AI, and they all get flagged ruthlessly even when they have a legitimate tech angle.
If people don't like AI related content then I encourage them to treat those posts the way they do politics.
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#7Asking to have a tech forum in 2026 that doesn’t discuss AI is about as much of a Luddite as asking about having tech forum anytime in the past 25 years that doesn’t discuss the internet or the 15 that doesn’t discuss mobile.
Absolutely everything in tech is touched by AI/ML in 2026 except micro controllers/embedded systems
On another note - YC 25 batch
https://www.extruct.ai/data-room/ycombinator-companies-s25/
YC 24 batch
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uy2aWoeRZopMIaXXxY2E...
On a personal note, I lead cloud + app dev implementations for a consulting company. I’ve had 5 projects since the beginning of last year and they have all involved Amazon hosted LLMs in some form or fashion.
Every single project I’ve been brought in with at pre sales has also involved Gen AI and/or traditional ML.
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#8I don't think its possible, you're just going to have to wait for the hype to die down like any hype wave
When's the last time you saw blockchain on the front page?
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#9Asking to have a tech forum in 2026 that doesn’t discuss AI is about as much of a Luddite as asking about having tech forum anytime in the past 25 years that doesn’t discuss the internet or the 15 that doesn’t discuss mobile. Absolutely everything in tech is touched by AI/ML in 2026 except micro controllers/embedded systems On another note - YC 25 batch https://www.extruct.ai/data-room/ycombinator-companies-s25/ YC 2…
Yes we already know it's omnipresent, that's the point. Some would rather lead in a different direction than follow like NPCs.
Re: Ask HN: Non AI-obsessed tech forums
#10Asking to have a tech forum in 2026 that doesn’t discuss AI is about as much of a Luddite as asking about having tech forum anytime in the past 25 years that doesn’t discuss the internet or the 15 that doesn’t discuss mobile. Absolutely everything in tech is touched by AI/ML in 2026 except micro controllers/embedded systems On another note - YC 25 batch https://www.extruct.ai/data-room/ycombinator-companies-s25/ YC 2…
Yes we already know it's omnipresent, that's the point. Some would rather lead in a different direction than follow like NPCs.
I too wish the world hadn’t moved on from when I started programming on a 1Mhz Apple //e in 1986 or from my first job as a Fortran and C programmer on DEC Vax and stratus VOS mainframes…
I also loved programming on these in 2007 using Windows Compact Framework.
https://weareconker.com/blog/is-windows-ce-still-supported-i...
But after being in this game for 30 years professionally and after half century of living on this earth, I still haven’t overcome my addictions to food and shelter and while I’m in pretty good shape, I don’t think I could start a successful career by opening an OnlyFans account so instead, I keep up to date on where the industry is…