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

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Post by coldpie » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:19 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.

I thought about writing a Firefox extension that would just auto-click the Hide button for any story containing a keyword from a configurable list. Haven't gotten around to it.

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

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Post by dmitrygr » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

Just wait a year. It will die down just like crypto and NFTs did. Hype goes in cycles.

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

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Post by OnionBlender » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

https://hcker.news has an optional AI filter. I don't know how accurate it is.

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

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Post by mixmastamyk » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC

throwaway_7678 wrote: post #3

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

I hoped so but there's a well-used "vibecoding" tag there and an admonishing/narrow focus that excludes many other interesting topics. A site needs some of that but they are strict to the point the place is kinda barren.

e.g. I recently submitted a page about new FOSS-oriented hardware and it was rejected as "business news - offtopic." Well, no wonder this place is a ghost town.

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

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Post by weird_trousers » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:23 PM UTC

OnionBlender wrote: post #13

https://hcker.news has an optional AI filter. I don't know how accurate it is.

Hm. The first link is about GPT-Live, from openai... I don't think it is accurate haha.

But thanks for the link, I did not know about it :)

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

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Post by weird_trousers » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:25 PM UTC

ben30 wrote: post #6

https://hackaday.com/

Oh nice, I didn't know this one. Thanks!

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

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Post by Cyberdog » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:25 PM UTC

throwaway_7678 wrote: post #3

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

I like Lobsters' design and would love to switch over, but it's still invite-only… I guess it works for them but it feels elitist to an anti-social nerd like me.

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

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Post by weird_trousers » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:25 PM UTC

willmeyers wrote: post #5

https://bubbles.town/ is fun.

Hum, indeed! Thanks!

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

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Post by robotswantdata » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:26 PM UTC

comp.lang.c

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

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Post by KenographerPrim » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:28 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #10

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.

You'd have to make LLM access harder, or make all platform harder to access, or both. And both will also penalize the not easy people. Like it always does.