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469 points bookofjoe | 9 comments | | HN request time: 0.311s | 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 ◴[] 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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fouronnes3 ◴[] No.44572072[source]
Great example of the power of vibe coding. The first item is literally "Kiro: A new agentic IDE".
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raincole ◴[] No.44572173[source]
There is literally an input box to put terms you want to exclude...

The prompt asks for "filters out specific search terms", not "intelligently filter out any AI-related keywords." So yes, a good example of the power of vibe coding: the LLM built a tool according to the prompt.

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FroshKiller ◴[] No.44572244[source]
So I have to stay up to date on AI stories just to know what buzzwords I should filter so I don't see AI stories?
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1. simonw ◴[] No.44572312[source]
Sounds to me like you want a deeper version of this that uses AI instead of keywords to help filter out AI stories.
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2. shepherdjerred ◴[] No.44572568[source]
At a certain point it’s ironic
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3. tolerance ◴[] No.44573071[source]
I think we're well past that stage. Using AI to escape AI. Does that count?
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4. voisin ◴[] No.44573362{3}[source]
I think there’s another step here: Using AI to build tools that use AI to escape AI.

Eventually: using AI to build tools that use AI to escape AI using tools that use AI.

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6. tolerance ◴[] No.44573589{4}[source]
> using AI to build tools that use AI to escape AI using tools that use AI

Few illustrations are so absurd yet feasible enough to depict as horrendous a reality as this.

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7. aleksituk ◴[] No.44573641[source]
Lol, yup. See azath92 comment - https://www.hackernews.coffee/
8. jwillp ◴[] No.44574590{5}[source]
Clearly the US needs a constitutional amendment to preserve the right to keep and bear AI tools. Then we can arm the victims of AI tools with their own AI tools, for self-defense. If we're lucky, AI will send its AI thoughts and AI prayers in carefully calculated quantities.
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9. tolerance ◴[] No.44574980{6}[source]
Better yet, such expressions would be categorized as tokens of condolence at no expense to the public. Subsidized by the arms manufacturers.