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

470 points bookofjoe | 5 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 1.065s | 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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CL_ergo ◴[15 Jul 25 15:17 UTC] No.44572058[source]▶
There's a special kind of irony to use AI to help out the people who hate AI.

It's not hypocrisy or anything negative like that, but I do find it amusing for some reason.

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owebmaster ◴[15 Jul 25 16:37 UTC] No.44573035[source]▶
There is an even more special kind of irony to see it failing as the top ranked story now is "Kiro: A new agentic IDE"
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simonw ◴[15 Jul 25 16:47 UTC] No.44573172[source]▶
Already fixed https://github.com/simonw/tools/commit/f95b306be7b584f388256...
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owebmaster ◴[15 Jul 25 16:54 UTC] No.44573254[source]▶
I know but the irony stands. We will get used to people getting embarrassed by AI results.
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1. bee_rider ◴[15 Jul 25 17:00 UTC] No.44573328[source]▶
This seems like exactly the type of problem human-written filtering systems fall into as well.
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2. owebmaster ◴[15 Jul 25 17:37 UTC] No.44573775[source]▶
human-written filtering systems don't brag about having a solution for a problem in 2 minutes and fail.
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3. bee_rider ◴[15 Jul 25 19:01 UTC] No.44574659[source]▶
This sounds more like a complaint about the human author, than the system itself.
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4. owebmaster ◴[15 Jul 25 19:27 UTC] No.44574912{3}[source]▶
Not at all, simonw's work is fantastic. But it was a funny #fail.
5. zimmund ◴[16 Jul 25 04:14 UTC] No.44578606[source]▶
It got 80% of the problem solved for OP, and the remaining 20% can be fixed by humans afterwards. Prompt early, prompt often (?)