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

465 points bookofjoe | 7 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom

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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simonw ◴[15 Jul 25 15:11 UTC] No.44571983[source]▶
I built you this: https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-filtered

It shows you the Hacker News page with ai and llm stories filtered out.

You can change the exclusion terms and save your changes in localStorage.

o3 knocked it out for me in a couple of minutes: https://chatgpt.com/share/68766f42-1ec8-8006-8187-406ef452e0...

Initial prompt was:

  Build a web tool that displays the Hacker
  News homepage (fetched from the Algolia API)
  but filters out specific search terms,
  default to "llm, ai" in a box at the top but
  the user can change that list, it is stored
  in localstorage. Don't use React.
Then four follow-ups:

  Rename to "Hacker News, filtered" and add a
  clear label that shows that the terms will
  be excluded

  Turn the username into a link to
  https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xxx -
  include the comment count, which is in the
  num_comments key

  The text "392 comments" should be the link,
  do not have a separate thread link

  Add a tooltip to "1 day ago" that shows the
  full value from created_at
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rottc0dd ◴[15 Jul 25 15:17 UTC] No.44572045[source]▶
Top story: Kiro: new agentic IDE
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1. simonw ◴[15 Jul 25 15:21 UTC] No.44572107[source]▶
I just added "agent" to the default exclusion list.
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2. luke-stanley ◴[15 Jul 25 15:33 UTC] No.44572233[source]▶
Still seeing `Kiro: A new agentic IDE` BTW.
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3. simonw ◴[15 Jul 25 15:40 UTC] No.44572306[source]▶
If the filters UI at the top shows "llm, ai" instead of "llm, ai, agent" then you probably have that previous search saved in localStorage.
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4. lossolo ◴[15 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44572680[source]▶
"Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent"

"Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard"

"Confessions of an ex-TSA agent"

"Terrible real estate agent photographs"

etc etc

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5. simonw ◴[15 Jul 25 16:47 UTC] No.44573163[source]▶
See comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44571740#44572312
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6. hereonout2 ◴[15 Jul 25 18:44 UTC] No.44574493{3}[source]▶
Huge respect for all your articles and work on llms, but this example should have been using AI to create a tool that uses AI to intelligently filter hacker news :)
7. lossolo ◴[15 Jul 25 23:00 UTC] No.44576818{3}[source]▶
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to see there. From my point of view, this is a low-effort, vibe coded app that doesn't solve the problem the OP had but it's solving a different one. You'd need to at least train a small classifier based on something like BERT to actually address the issue. What I showed in my comment just demonstrates that this doesn't solve the problem OP had.