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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 rdmuser »

willmeyers wrote: post #5

https://bubbles.town/ is fun.

I like a lot of things about bubbles but it seems to surface a lot of negative posts that are mainly just rants. A good chunk of articles in the daily/weekly briefings kind of feel like an indie blogging spin on the negative posts/articles you'd see a lot on microblogging sites.

It regularly surfaces some good stuff so it's working but it's also kind of depressing in ways that made me leave microblogging sites. There regularly is a lot of anti ai rants, USpol rants, the web is dead, defeatist/nihilistic posts etc in the weekly/daily digests. The entire culture section are these types of posts currently.

Makes me wonder if the use of microblogging accounts to log in is partially biasing the userbase towards that kind of writing? I don't have a solution for this though and limiting to fediverse accounts probably has some upsides too.

Ultimately bubbles still gets a big thumbs up from me but I'd love to see these kinds of posts deprioritized a bit. Outside maybe a few deeper more constructive ones that link out well I don't think they represent the best of indie blogging. Anyways if you made it this deep into my ramble I hope you have a nice week.

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

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Post by smokel »

There are very few sites such as Hacker News around. Looking for one that is similar in quality, but with a slightly different focus is going to be disappointing.

Perhaps it helps to consider why you'd exactly want this? You may be better off not visiting any such site, and instead focus on real human-in-the-loop activities with a group of local hackers.

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

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Post by PaulHoule »

KenographerPrim wrote: post #20
PaulHoule wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

'pends. You gotta be antimimetic without saying you are antimimetic.

One answer is to move on from the party when it isn't fun anymore and start a new party. Like the way you are at the bar at last call and get an invitation to a party where they're drinking at someone's house.

More than one statue of limitations ago I was in an activist group that helped take down a public corporation (they deny our responsibility) and it was not hypothetical, we were being infiltrated by the FBI, and pretty regularly we made a new mailing list with names that we trusted and moved our planning there.

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

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Post by uproarchat »

jfim wrote: post #28
Cyberdog wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's also kind of hard to know if you already know someone who could give you an invite, since I don't really know the online handles of people I know in meatspace. I've resigned myself to maybe someday getting something posted that gets picked up there and asking for an invite at that time. The RSS feeds though are pretty neat, it's what I use to fetch articles for archiving so that I can get a curated set of things…

email me, i got you :)

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

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Post by weird_trousers »

OnionBlender wrote: post #27
weird_trousers wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

Did you enable to filter? Here is a link with AI excluded. https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude

Oh, thanks! I completely missed the "optional".

It seems to work great actually... Thanks!

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

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Post by CoastalCoder »

smokel wrote: post #32

There are very few sites such as Hacker News around. Looking for one that is similar in quality, but with a slightly different focus is going to be disappointing. Perhaps it helps to consider why you'd exactly want this? You may be better off not visiting any such site, and instead focus on real human-in-the-loop activities with a group of local hackers.

I don't do web stuff, but I wonder if one could easily create a browser extension that hides AI-centric submissions?
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