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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 ActionHank »

bdelmas wrote: post #174

Why limit? This is a news website where users judge if something is newsworthy by upvoting it. If the community decides it’s newsworthy it’s newsworthy. Maybe not for you but at least enough people to make it visible in front page. Unless you have strong arguments, like topics creating death threats or people doxing, there is no reason whatsoever to censure any news because you personally doesn’t care or don’t like i…

I mean, it's cute that you think that users are driving anything on the internet anymore.

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

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Post by hypfer »

Given that LLMs are currently the frontier of innovation in our industry, it does make sense to me that most stuff that happens and gets talked about would be somehow connected to it.

There's a lot of focus on in. People are trying it out in their workflows and learning new things.

So, potentially, this could just be organic.

Of course, in reality, it is not. There's a ton of "thought leader" LinkedIn slop, just advertising their own personal brand with at best mid takes. But grifters come with every paradigm shift. Unfortunately.

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

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Post by sippingabonedry »

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 .

It's more complicated than that. This place has changed.

The biggest tell is reposting something interesting from a year or two ago that received hundreds of upvotes. Now it will get 2 or three upvotes whilst "lulz Trump" /r/politics style culture war BS will be immediately hurled up and onto the front page.

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

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Post by sanderjd »

nottorp wrote: post #37
stormcode wrote: post #29

I think this is just how it goes. Were you here in 2017-2018 when it was all blockchain all the time?

Was it? Iirc there was always something interesting on the front page besides the blockchain. Now there are days when there's nothing besides the "AI" created "AI" spam.

IMO the crypto / blockchain dominated periods were worse than the AI dominance of the moment. But YMMV I suppose!

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

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Post by Philpax »

FLeXMurphy wrote: post #200
Philpax wrote: post #88

While I'm sympathetic to the sentiment, the ongoing automation of intelligence is, for better or worse, one of the most consequential things that can/will happen to "hackers" (as well as white-collar workers in general), and it is very difficult for us to look away from that asteroid in the sky.

Surprised you put "hackers" in quotes but not intelligence.

"Hackers" because the term in the context of "Hacker News" is broad and hard to define. Intelligence is, too, but I'm not in the business of pretending that the AI systems aren't some form of intelligent.

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

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Post by postalcoder »

ctenb wrote: post #237
postalcoder wrote: post #214

This is a solved problem. Hacker News without AI: https://hcker.news/?view=frontpage&ai=exclude

Thanks for sharing. I'm going to give it a spin for a while. The downside is you cannot comment or vote on the external site so you are always juggling the two sites for that.

I have a browser extension that allows you to comment and vote as if it's HN.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hckernews-helper/gm...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hcker-news/ https://hcker.news/notes/browser-extension

(Safari ext coming soon)

The extension itself follows the principle of least privilege. It doesn't even have access to the HN site cookie.

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

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Post by noir_lord »

wolvoleo wrote: post #199
slowpacket wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Ironically, this project was built with AI coding and uses AI to filter out articles about AI. Go figure."

Well it is the best way to do a 'fuzzy' filter like that. Rather than trying frantically to chase keywords. I don't think anyone considers AI to be something useless. It sure has its uses, I use it a lot to help with research. But it is sometimes shoehorned into things it doesn't belong, or its capabilities overblown for marketing. I think that's what people object to.

That and the sheer volume drowns out everything else.

The S/N ratio entirely depends on whether you care about AI and I don't not really.

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

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Post by noir_lord »

esjeon wrote: post #207
slowpacket wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Ironically, this project was built with AI coding and uses AI to filter out articles about AI. Go figure."

An AI slop to filter out AI slops -- the pinnacle of AI. Sadly this would not end just as a joke. We'll be doing this forever from now on.

Humans becoming the adversarial network to the AI is indeed a Black Mirror episode worthy outcome.

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

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Post by busymom0 »

noir_lord wrote: post #244
busymom0 wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you should replace vibecode with vibecod so that you can catch vibecoding too. Also add "vibe cod" with a space. And add token, Gemini, OpenAI, llama

Oh it absolutely will have issues (for example it'd hit Maintenance in a title because of AI), it was something I did in a fit of pique because I opened HN one day and ~2/3 of the stories where about AI/LLM's - great if that is what you want, annoying as hell if you like the other stuff much more. There are about a million ways to do it better but I can accept the odd false positive :).

Yea, it will also block words like email, daily, main, domain, train etc as the term AI is case insensitive without word boundaries.

I used gemini to update it to:

    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a:has-text(/\b(?:A\.?I\.?|A\.?G\.?I\.?|LLMs?|GPTs?|TPU|NPU|RAG|MoE|RLHF|xAI)\b|Anthropic|agent|super-?intelligence|Blackwell|Cerebras|ChatGPT|Claude|Cohere|Command\s*R|Context\s*window|Copilot|Cursor|DALL-E|deep\s*learning|DeepSeek|ElevenLabs|Fine-tun(?:e|ing)|Flux|Gemini|GenAI|Generative|Gemma|Grok|Groq|H100|Hallucination|harness(?:es)?|Hugging\s*Face|LangChain|Llama|LlamaIndex|Midjourney|Mistral|Ollama|OpenAI|OpenRouter|Perplexity|prompt|Qwen|Runway\s*(?:AI|ML)|Gen-[1-4](?:\.5)?|Sora|Synthetic\s*data|token|vibecod|vLLM|Whisper/i)):xpath(. | following-sibling::tr[1])
Note that blocking token, prompt, agent, and harness will also block things like auth tokens, SSH agents.

Here's how mine looks using my method:

https://imgur.com/a/P1qMIok

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Any improvements to above filter are welcome.

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