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Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by classified »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #75
freetime2 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My personal stance is that the genie is out of the bottle, and there's likely no putting it back. Kind of like nuclear weapons: I wish they didn't exist, but since they do I'd rather be on the side that has them. Honestly it's an incredible technology the likes of which I never thought I would see in my lifetime. It's definitely not perfect, but it is improving at a frightening pace. Some days I am optimistic for how…

How a post about "Hacker News, Sans AI" became about .... AI !

Distinction is perfect continence.

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by ochrist »

postalcoder wrote: post #87

I built a filter for AI (inclusive and exclusive) for hcker.news a while back and continue to maintain it. It’s quite robust, and does more than just keyword filtering. https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude

Someone mentioned this in another comment, so I'll just copy/pasta my own comment:

Yeah, that doesn't work either. E.g. it has the following stories:

- Nordstjernen 1.0 (built with Claude)

- Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

#103

Post by altairprime »

ochrist wrote: post #100
DavideNL wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The style is a bit off A much better option, in my opinion: https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude

Yeah, that doesn't work either. E.g. it has the following stories: - Nordstjernen 1.0 (built with Claude) - Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

The only way to fully detect and remove AI posts from HN is using human curation by a human-selected few. Everything automated will have a higher review rate (postsReviewed / postsTotal) and also an higher error rate (incorrectReview / postsReviewed) in return for not being subject to puny human weaknesses like sleep, sickness, and (until curator selection is itself automated), spam/troll malice. To misquote my favorite blooper reel ever, “That’s not something that code can fix, that’s gonna be a little harder to fix”.

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by DavideNL »

ochrist wrote: post #100
DavideNL wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The style is a bit off A much better option, in my opinion: https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude

Yeah, that doesn't work either. E.g. it has the following stories: - Nordstjernen 1.0 (built with Claude) - Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

I don't see the "Claude" story. Did you change the filters? (i can clearly see a message that the AI filter is active in the top of the page.)

"GenAI" is not filtered indeed. Maybe it's not working perfectly, but it does work for most/many AI stories. Good enough!

PS. You can just add the word "GenAI" to your manual filters, in settings...

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

#106

Post by simonw »

Bolwin wrote: post #97
simonw wrote: post #18

I built (well, vibe-coded) a version of this a while back that runs against the Hacker News API, it's static HTML on GitHub Pages so I don't have to run a server for it: https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-filtered

It is a little ironic coming from the most prolific AI poster here

I have a quirky sense of humor.

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by johnea »

chilipepperhott wrote: post #51
millerm wrote: post #20

I can deal with a launch problem. I am looking forward to being able to check it out. I stopped coming to HN as often as I used to because there has been too much AI talk. It's like a dang AI subreddit. I don't want anything to do with AI. I have lost 2 jobs to AI budgets and stupid executive decisions. It's no longer part of my personal and professional life. I hope it works out.

I've addressed the issues. It should be usable now. I apologize to everyone who encountered an error page. Have a good weekend, everyone!

Can you post the entries to a Libera IRC channel?

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

#110

Post by tlavoie »

I've found a workable approach, browsing HN with my feed reader (FreshRSS, in this case). I have bookmarks for various things, one of which is what I've labeled "AI nonsense". It's not HN-specific, but selects for unread articles that match a variety of AI-adjacent terms. One or two might look interesting enough to read, all the rest get the "mark as read" treatment, and so much clutter just goes away.
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