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Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by chilipepperhott » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 9:43 PM UTC

Hopefully fixed the cache invalidation. I'm crossing my fingers.

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by henriquemaia » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 9:43 PM UTC

I've been training to naturally ignore AI mentions that I thought this entry was about some HN ui font change (Sans).

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by 866-RON-0-FEZ » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC

chilipepperhott wrote: post #12

866-RON-0-FEZ wrote: post #5

Interesting this keeps moving up the front page when the site is inaccessible because it's hosted on a baked potato.

Yep. My single core Proxmox machine sitting in my living room with horrible cache invalidation is struggling.

Sounds like a great use case for serving plain HTTP over cloudflare tunnel. Why terminate TLS when you don't have to?

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by flexagoon » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 9:46 PM UTC

I've been thinking of making something like this for myself for quite a while now, glad I'm not the only one who had the idea and someone actually did it before I got to it

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by pkage » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC

The filter doesn't appear to be perfect, one of the top posts right now is "My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development"

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by phildenhoff » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #18

I built (well, vibe-coded) a version of this a while back that runs against the Hacker News API, it's static HTML on GitHub Pages so I don't have to run a server for it: https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-filtered

How often do you use it?

Immediately I started thinking how nice it would be to use natural language to have LLMs generate a deterministic filter for stories matching content I DO care about, filtered from New. Instead of filtering it out.

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC

chilipepperhott wrote: post #11

kylecazar wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious to find out if they're using a model to detect AI content. I'd be more amused than disappointed. But, alas, potato.

It's not an LLM. Why use big program when regex do trick?

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Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by chilipepperhott » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC

866-RON-0-FEZ wrote: post #23

chilipepperhott wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. My single core Proxmox machine sitting in my living room with horrible cache invalidation is struggling.

Sounds like a great use case for serving plain HTTP over cloudflare tunnel. Why terminate TLS when you don't have to?

You know what's funny? Most of this site is exactly that. The _one_ time I do something dynamic…

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by hirako2000 » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 9:50 PM UTC

A problem is it doesn't load as fast. Could it be helped?

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by geniium » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 9:51 PM UTC

henriquemaia wrote: post #22

I've been training to naturally ignore AI mentions that I thought this entry was about some HN ui font change (Sans).

Was about to write the same