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Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by noir_lord » 

    news.ycombinator.com##:matches-path(/^\/(?:news)?$/) tr.athing:has(a:has-text(/AI|claude|A.I|harnesses|harness|OpenRouter|llm|vibecode|agi|deep learning|agent|TPU|GPT|DeepSeek|Anthropic/i)):xpath(. | following-sibling::tr[1])
I just have that in my Ublock Origin rules - it cuts the noise dramatically and if something gets through I just update the has(), it's a brute force approach.

Ironically the only reason I saw this post is because I was on my ipad :).

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by [deleted] »

flexagoon wrote: post #56
leonheld wrote: post #3

HN is a reflection of the industry and we're at peak hype-cycle at the moment. I use this when I need a break https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai .

There's also https://unslop.news , which removes just the posts about AI, rather than all posts that mention it at all

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Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by ChickeNES »

embedding-shape wrote: post #45
ipsod wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a hot take. AI has fundamentally shifted things. Start-ups can start up 10x faster, and HN is start-up flavored. If people quit talking about AI, it'll be because it's become foundational infrastructure, so it's not the primary focus of the articles, but just the atmosphere they all exist within, like the computer, or the internet.

But do you think this is our first rodeo with "XYZ has fundamentally shifted things and startups now start up faster"? RoR did the same, Bootstrap as well, and countless of other things. Don't get me wrong, I leverage these AI tools as well to be more productive, I'm not against using it or anything else. But I'm also old enough to know that eventually AI will be "old news" when the next hot topic comes around.

> But do you think this is our first rodeo with "XYZ has fundamentally shifted things and startups now start up faster"? RoR did the same, Bootstrap as well, and countless of other things.

I really don't understand anyone who can say something like this with a straight face. Comparing AI to Bootstrap? I...

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