let's fast forward to the part where the general public can make their own "Facebook, without Ads"
Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
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Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
#82It looks nice but I can't load any comments, and I believe it's because I have Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection turned on to the strictest level.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
#83It looks nice but I can't load any comments, and I believe it's because I have Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection turned on to the strictest level.
Hm, I couldnt reproduce on firefox mac. Which version of firefox are you on? can you open the network inspector to see if you're hitting the api?
Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
#84I know you guys hate X/Twitter but the muted words feature is really awesome for this kind of thing. You never have to hear about a topic you don't give a crap about ever again.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
#85Would if be possible to set up push notifications for new stories matching a filter - one that's separate to the main filter? Like say, I want to get notified every time an article about "Linux" is posted. But if I go to main page, I want to see all stories (or whatever my main filter is set to).
Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
#86Would if be possible to set up push notifications for new stories matching a filter - one that's separate to the main filter? Like say, I want to get notified every time an article about "Linux" is posted. But if I go to main page, I want to see all stories (or whatever my main filter is set to).
Yeah, all possible, the infra for all of that is set up. I think I understand your request but can u send me an email so I can talk it through with you a little more?
Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
#87I know you guys hate X/Twitter but the muted words feature is really awesome for this kind of thing. You never have to hear about a topic you don't give a crap about ever again.
you can essentially mute words on hcker.news. You can set exclusion filters in the settings. Those can be turned into rss feeds as well.
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#89It looks nice but I can't load any comments, and I believe it's because I have Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection turned on to the strictest level.
Hm, I couldnt reproduce on firefox mac. Which version of firefox are you on? can you open the network inspector to see if you're hitting the api?
Firefox 155.0.1 Linux/x86_64 with uBlock Origin enabled.
https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js is blocked by uBlock, while https://hcker.news/api/reply-notifications/config and
https://hcker.news/api/comments/49662990?include_user_stats=... return 403.
Perhaps it's Cloudflare that's doing the blocking.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
#90Here is an approach to filtering LLM written content: https://hnslop.nilsherzig.com/ Instead of filtering keywords this ranks the content using Pangram. But it's also pretty effective at filtering content about AI. Turns out that a lot of LLM tooling projects have LLM written project descriptions/blog posts. It's amazing to see how many of the "AI hurts my brain" posts are apparently written by an LLM.
nvm sorry, just read the "how this works" comment from OP. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660301 OPs solution does more than keyword filtering. But its still about filtering out "content about ai" not filtering out "ai written content".
Great point. I think the key is differentiating between "prompt generated" content vs "AI as a Topic" content and then being able to toggle them at will.
I am not averse to prompt-generated content, but it should be marked and quoted as such, just like any other reference. If it's not, it's like the author is double-cheating.
In fact there are no shortage of comments here on HN, especially open-ended questions that could've been plugged into a bot for an answer. Avoiding LLMs altogether is foolhardy. It's a matter of balance, and being able to write a good prompt is a skill - no mental atrophy there. Content derived from non-English sources using English-based LLMs is also an interesting area. [1]
It's possible to obtain AIaaT from https://aibriefs.news/ and then prune it elsewhere if need be. But the best aggregators like that may be machine-generated with a lot of human moderation. I wonder if that is 100% machine generated.
Likewise, HN-AI could well be a decent site.
[1] How much content can be derived from non-English sources using LLMs? https://share.gemini.google/ObjMQHCj8JWj"