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Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 3:53 PM UTC

jessetemp wrote: post #25

There is also the hide button under every post, which I’ve started using generously. It only takes a few seconds to clean up the front page to your taste

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Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

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Post by Tepix » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 3:53 PM UTC

You need to search deeper!

Looking at the iPod 6G QEMU emulation story:

> "With the help of Claude Code, I was able to create code to extract it using emCORE."

Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

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Post by gonzalohm » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 3:53 PM UTC

otherayden wrote: post #19

layer8 wrote: post #18

If you prefer something closer to the original layout: https://www.unslop.news/

Thank you for sharing my site :)

Do you know if there is a way of pointing any of the hackernews phone apps to your site instead of the official one?

Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

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Post by busymom0 » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

account42 wrote: post #17

First post shown right now is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659245 which is essentially an ad for an AI company. So I guess this will need further fine tuning.

Here's how mine looks using my method:

https://imgur.com/a/P1qMIok

9 out of 30 posts have been removed.

Steps:

Install uBlock Origin Lite. Then create a custom filter:

    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])

Any improvements to above filter are welcome.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

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Post by gdulli » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 3:56 PM UTC

jessetemp wrote: post #25

There is also the hide button under every post, which I’ve started using generously. It only takes a few seconds to clean up the front page to your taste

I have a cron job that logs in and hides stuff based on a big list of keywords and domains I'm not interested in.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

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Post by otherayden » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC

gonzalohm wrote: post #33

otherayden wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for sharing my site :)

Do you know if there is a way of pointing any of the hackernews phone apps to your site instead of the official one?

I don't personally use those apps so I'm not sure, but if they're open source I'm confident you could easily update them to work with my site. In case it's useful, here's the source code https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai

Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

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Post by postalcoder » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 4:01 PM UTC

dorkrawk wrote: post #12

For Hacker News without AI, can I suggest the domain of news.ycombntor.com ?

Behold, the power of suggestion: https://news.ycombntor.com

Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

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Post by nonsensical_ » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 4:02 PM UTC

I prefer lobste.rs for this.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

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Post by postalcoder » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

visarga wrote: post #20

Do you have one but only with AI? like, a toggle on what side to see? Edit: ah yes, sure it exists

I'm thinking you saw it but yeah, you can only have AI news if you invert the argument: https://hcker.news/?ai=include

Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI

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Post by postalcoder » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 4:04 PM UTC

bananaflag wrote: post #22

postalcoder wrote: post #13

Just a few high level points about how this works. It works in multiple stages: 1. I apply a domain and keyword filter to the feed 2. The content of the remaining articles are run twice daily through a Modern Bert-based classifier fine-tuned to detect AI-related content (~8000 training examples)[0]. It also filters out Github repos that contain AI authorship. My backend scans: - Commit messages for agent attribution…

Funny how it uses AI

Ethical, grass-fed AI!