Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

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37 points | by postalcoder 5 hours ago ago

9 comments

  • k310 3 hours ago ago

    I don't normally read the front page, more /newest

    Any chance of implementing that?

    Your site works with my Firefox auto-pager, which is really nice for archiving posts for later search.

    • postalcoder 2 hours ago ago

      Hmm, right now I only process a subset of all submissions to keep things lean, so this is the closest that the site can do to /newest right now: https://hcker.news/?filter=top200&ai=exclude

      Feel free to email me.

      • k310 33 minutes ago ago

        No problem, and thanks. I understand the size of the problem, and why the above link is "most upvoted"

        By archiving all, I can easily filter titles as text, if I really wanted to do so, but it's not all that important for me. grep -v works!

        Again, thanks for the effort.

  • coldpie 5 hours ago ago

    I also built a browser extension to do this client-side. It just auto-clicks the Hide links for any story with an AI-related term. Source & Firefox add-on link here: https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn

    • postalcoder 5 hours ago ago

      There are a lot of ways of tackling this, but the only way to truly filter everything out is to update the list constantly.

      My filter currently has 146 keyword filters and 101 domain filters. Even with those, I've had to filter almost 400 exact urls on top of that in the past two weeks!

      • coldpie 5 hours ago ago

        Definitely a lot of approaches. I like that mine is dead simple & runs in the browser; but an advantage to a deeper inspection like yours is it will catch those endless AI thinkpieces that don't obviously stick an AI term in the title. Pros & cons!

  • LunicLynx 3 hours ago ago

    Awesome! Finally the hacker news I originally came for

  • krunck 5 hours ago ago

    Thank you!

    • postalcoder 5 hours ago ago

      Same to you – glad you like it!