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

468 points bookofjoe | 2 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.472s | 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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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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fouronnes3 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:19 UTC] 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 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:26 UTC] 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 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:35 UTC] 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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Reubachi ◴[15 Jul 25 16:05 UTC] No.44572587[source]▶
Our brain decodes info based on context and extrapolation

This submission we're commenting on could be about filtering out any data, not just AI stuff. Politics, crypto, AI etc. Or more minute like "Trump" "fracking" "bitcoin" etc.

In any of these scenarios, with a tool designed to filter out content based on limited context, when would you ever be perfectly satisfied?

would you like AI to help you build the perfect context-filter model?

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1. bee_rider ◴[15 Jul 25 16:58 UTC] No.44573295[source]▶
And certainly in our anti-politics filter we’d want to include the filtering of stories that promote the extreme political position that tech is somehow detached from politics! (Especially Silicon Valley startup tech that owes so much to the local politics and economy of California).

Which is to say, filtering politics out is absurd, one person’s extreme politics is another’s default view of the universe.

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2. lazide ◴[15 Jul 25 17:39 UTC] No.44573790[source]▶
In a similar vein, I’ve had people assert (in all seriousness), their English had no discernible accent because they were American.

It’s a similar kind of mindset.