I would agree. While not quite what you’re looking for, I recently built a site, RNKFlow.com (Rank Flow), to bring in multiple tech/science feeds including HN and Product Hunt to pull in more interesting posts. There is a filter option so can search across all feeds and only see what you’re interested in. Also an alerting function where you can add keyword tags and get an email digest. And Categories to limit posts only Robotics or Show HN/PH as an example. So not quite what you’re going after, but maybe a better overall experience for you.
I’ve updated the RNKFlow.com filter to use a comma separated list of terms. Using a negative term will filter out stories you don’t want to see. If you sign in, you can save a default filter list and I’ve made it part of the free tier. Hope this helps a bit.
Lobste.rd for general tech, specific subreddits or Discord communities for narrower topics. HN is probably not coming back from this one the AI industry is too concentrated in the same demographic that posts there.
I miss the old look what someone built vibe too. There is still good stuff in Show HN threads but it does take more digging now than it used to.
Yeah, it's become such a boring AI marketing outlet.
HN is the news aggregator for an incubator / startup factory. The guy in charge of OpenAI used to run HN.
With respect, what did you expect this place to be?
I would agree. While not quite what you’re looking for, I recently built a site, RNKFlow.com (Rank Flow), to bring in multiple tech/science feeds including HN and Product Hunt to pull in more interesting posts. There is a filter option so can search across all feeds and only see what you’re interested in. Also an alerting function where you can add keyword tags and get an email digest. And Categories to limit posts only Robotics or Show HN/PH as an example. So not quite what you’re going after, but maybe a better overall experience for you.
Was thinking the same thing. I love Hacker News, but perhaps an AI filter on the site would be really useful.
I’ve updated the RNKFlow.com filter to use a comma separated list of terms. Using a negative term will filter out stories you don’t want to see. If you sign in, you can save a default filter list and I’ve made it part of the free tier. Hope this helps a bit.
Lobste.rd for general tech, specific subreddits or Discord communities for narrower topics. HN is probably not coming back from this one the AI industry is too concentrated in the same demographic that posts there.
Everything that's not AI is just irrelevant. AI is diverse enough to replace the other things you'd talk about.
subpar ragebait, try harder.
I've been thinking for a while to create an AI tool to classify articles (not just on HN), and filter the ones I'm not in the mood for.
I think one was posted a while ago.
Ironically you would miss the articles proclaiming your new invention is the next big thing! /sarcasm
Everything on HN these days get downvoted to Oblivion. And people are heavily pushing ai and cloud products, the builder/hacker mindset is gone imho.
boring AI marketing outlet.
lobster?
I agree, Lobsters is probably the closest alternative
You're referring to https://lobste.rs/ ?
Correct
Had a browse and it is definitely reminiscent of HN's early days! Thanks for the recommendation :)