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Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

468 points bookofjoe | 3 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.985s | source

I would very much like to enjoy HN the way I did years ago, as a place where I'd discover things that I never otherwise would have come across.

The increasing AI/LLM domination of the site has made it much less appealing to me.

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toomuchtodo ◴[15 Jul 25 14:52 UTC] No.44571760[source]▶
Feature request: HN could support a tag or label for categorizing a post. This would allow for filtering trivially, and creating views based on participant interest.
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PaulHoule ◴[15 Jul 25 14:56 UTC] No.44571800[source]▶
Wouldn't be hard to train an LLM to do it!
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1. toomuchtodo ◴[15 Jul 25 14:58 UTC] No.44571831[source]▶
Indeed! Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261825

I suppose an extension is the answer, classifying and customizing the user’s view accordingly with a pluggable LLM config.

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2. azath92 ◴[15 Jul 25 17:56 UTC] No.44573985[source]▶
weve just explored a HN site-reskin as a quick way to validate this, and I now use it for my browsing every day. Its a pretty transparent "profile" that gets applied by an llm to rank your HN frontpage, but would be trivial to shift that to a filter.

An extension could be a powerful way to apply it without having to leave HN, but I wonder if that (and our website prototype) is a short term solution. I can imaging having an extension per news/content site, or an "alt site" for each that takes into account your preferences, but it feels clunky.

OTOH having a generic llm in browser that does this for all sites feels quite far off, so maybe the narrow solutions where you really care about it are the way to go?

3. curious_cat_163 ◴[15 Jul 25 19:47 UTC] No.44575096[source]▶
Maybe you'll want to try Techne: https://techne.app.