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

We just built https://www.hackernews.coffee/ to rerank your frontpage based on a quick survey of your preference, all local storage based.

In general we're thinking about how you can have a transparent profile that stands in place of an opaque algo, or in this case a dominance of a community by something you're not so into. It allows you to still engage with HN, but through the lense of a profile you have control over.

Ironically it is built with AI, but its pretty straightforward no magic stuff. Keen to hear if it is useful, or could be, we're really early stages exploring where to go with it.

I feel like 10 answers is too few to generate a good profile. I tried it and it marked a lot of stories as 'skip' that were pretty interesting to me, presumably because they didn't fit into the 3 or 4 categories it determined I was interested in. That said, it was useful to filter out AI stuff, so that's good I guess.

Totally agree! when we first made it public we saw almost half of folks churned without finishing the survey when we had it set at 30. That number is down to 15% churn, but at the tradeoff of coarseness of profile.

Theres some work to make _both_ the onboarding for totally fresh users essentially frictionless, while also allowing adding more nuance. Our todo is having a "rank some more" thats easy, or some "while browsing" to build that profile up over time.