Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

#1

Post by postalcoder » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 5:39 PM UTC

Hi folks,

I've noticed that a lot of people here seem exhausted by the amount of AI news on the front page. I shared hcker.news here a year ago and it has since gained a ton of filtering features, including a dedicated AI filter, so I figured I should tell more people about it.

The filter works in three passes:

  1. Known AI-related keywords and domains are filtered automatically.
  2. An agent reviews the remaining articles and removes those it identifies as AI-related.
  3. I make the call on uncertain cases.

You can also exclude GitHub repos posted to HN that show signs of AI authorship. The filter checks:

  - Commit messages for agent attribution
  - Contributors for known coding agents
  - Repository files for agent instructions and configs

No filter will be perfect, but this is as good as it gets. lmk what you think. Cheers.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

#2

Post by coldpie » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 6:07 PM UTC

I also built a browser extension to do this client-side. It just auto-clicks the Hide links for any story with an AI-related term. Source & Firefox add-on link here: https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn

Re: Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

#3

Post by postalcoder » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 6:16 PM UTC

coldpie wrote: post #2

I also built a browser extension to do this client-side. It just auto-clicks the Hide links for any story with an AI-related term. Source & Firefox add-on link here: https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn

There are a lot of ways of tackling this, but the only way to truly filter everything out is to update the list constantly.

My filter currently has 146 keyword filters and 101 domain filters. Even with those, I've had to filter almost 400 exact urls on top of that in the past two weeks!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

#4

Post by krunck » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC

Thank you!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

#5

Post by coldpie » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC

postalcoder wrote: post #3

coldpie wrote: post #2

I also built a browser extension to do this client-side. It just auto-clicks the Hide links for any story with an AI-related term. Source & Firefox add-on link here: https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn

There are a lot of ways of tackling this, but the only way to truly filter everything out is to update the list constantly. My filter currently has 146 keyword filters and 101 domain filters. Even with those, I've had to filter almost 400 exact urls on top of that in the past two weeks!

Definitely a lot of approaches. I like that mine is dead simple & runs in the browser; but an advantage to a deeper inspection like yours is it will catch those endless AI thinkpieces that don't obviously stick an AI term in the title. Pros & cons!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

#6

Post by postalcoder » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

krunck wrote: post #4

Thank you!

Same to you – glad you like it!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

#7

Post by LunicLynx » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 7:40 PM UTC

Awesome! Finally the hacker news I originally came for

Re: Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

#8

Post by k310 » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 8:22 PM UTC

I don't normally read the front page, more /newest

Any chance of implementing that?

Your site works with my Firefox auto-pager, which is really nice for archiving posts for later search.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

#9

Post by postalcoder » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 9:19 PM UTC

k310 wrote: post #8

I don't normally read the front page, more /newest Any chance of implementing that? Your site works with my Firefox auto-pager, which is really nice for archiving posts for later search.

Hmm, right now I only process a subset of all submissions to keep things lean, so this is the closest that the site can do to /newest right now: https://hcker.news/?filter=top200&ai=exclude

Feel free to email me.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

#10

Post by k310 » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

postalcoder wrote: post #9

k310 wrote: post #8

I don't normally read the front page, more /newest Any chance of implementing that? Your site works with my Firefox auto-pager, which is really nice for archiving posts for later search.

Hmm, right now I only process a subset of all submissions to keep things lean, so this is the closest that the site can do to /newest right now: https://hcker.news/?filter=top200&ai=exclude Feel free to email me.

No problem, and thanks. I understand the size of the problem, and why the above link is "most upvoted"

By archiving all, I can easily filter titles as text, if I really wanted to do so, but it's not all that important for me. grep -v works!

Again, thanks for the effort.