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469 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.953s | 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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toomuchtodo ◴[15 Jul 25 14:52 UTC] No.44571760[source]▶

>>44571740 (OP) #

Feature request: HN could support a tag or label for categorizing a post. This would allow for filtering trivially, and creating views based on participant interest.

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PaulHoule ◴[15 Jul 25 14:56 UTC] No.44571800[source]▶

>>44571760 #

Wouldn't be hard to train an LLM to do it!

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toomuchtodo ◴[15 Jul 25 14:58 UTC] No.44571831[source]▶

>>44571800 #

Indeed! Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261825

I suppose an extension is the answer, classifying and customizing the user’s view accordingly with a pluggable LLM config.

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1. azath92 ◴[15 Jul 25 17:56 UTC] No.44573985[source]▶

>>44571831 #

weve just explored a HN site-reskin as a quick way to validate this, and I now use it for my browsing every day. Its a pretty transparent "profile" that gets applied by an llm to rank your HN frontpage, but would be trivial to shift that to a filter.

An extension could be a powerful way to apply it without having to leave HN, but I wonder if that (and our website prototype) is a short term solution. I can imaging having an extension per news/content site, or an "alt site" for each that takes into account your preferences, but it feels clunky.

OTOH having a generic llm in browser that does this for all sites feels quite far off, so maybe the narrow solutions where you really care about it are the way to go?

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