Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

#1

Post by weird_trousers » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:48 PM UTC

I am done with articles stating "I used this LLM to do that", or "Look, this agent did that in 2 minutes!". I want content more user-centric, less openai / anthropic, and more "human-in-the-loop" articles.

Any other website to recommend? I think lobste.rs was a good hacker news aggregator, but I don't know if it is still relevant today...

UPDATE:

Some recommendations, provided by the answers:

- https://hackaday.com/ - https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude - https://lobste.rs/

Related discussions

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713041 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567155

Re: Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

#2

Post by not_your_vase » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC

Maybe there could be an AI-generated HN mirror: the AI would monitor HN continuously, and filter out the AI related news. Fight fire with fire.

Re: Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

#3

Post by throwaway_7678 » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:07 PM UTC

Try https://lobste.rs/, not completely without ai news but much better.

Re: Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

#4

Post by KenographerPrim » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:12 PM UTC

Good luck with that. If something is easily accessible, it will be accessed by easy people, and if it can flood a platform, it will. Easy people don't care. Easy people will never care.

Re: Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

#5

Post by willmeyers » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:12 PM UTC

https://bubbles.town/ is fun.

Re: Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

#6

Post by ben30 » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:15 PM UTC

https://hackaday.com/

Re: Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

#7

Post by dullcrisp » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:16 PM UTC

not_your_vase wrote: post #2

Maybe there could be an AI-generated HN mirror: the AI would monitor HN continuously, and filter out the AI related news. Fight fire with fire.

Ooh but then would the AI filter out discussion of itself?

Re: Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

#8

Post by theamk » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:17 PM UTC

willmeyers wrote: post #5

https://bubbles.town/ is fun.

current front page: out of 6 posts viisble, 3 are about AI

Re: Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

#9

Post by PaulHoule » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:17 PM UTC

I think the interesting thing is that if you look at /new, actually the community and moderation system is already holding back a fantastic volume of AI slop and “slop about AI”. It would be fair to say “HN has too much stuff about AI” and “the HN community is hostile/skeptical of AI”, in fact you hear both in the comments all the time.

Re: Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

#10

Post by PaulHoule » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:18 PM UTC

KenographerPrim wrote: post #4

Good luck with that. If something is easily accessible, it will be accessed by easy people, and if it can flood a platform, it will. Easy people don't care. Easy people will never care.

The answer to that is make it too hard for easy people.