Hacker News, Sans AI

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/hacker-news-sans-AI

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9021007•57m ago

Hug of death?

chilipepperhott•54m ago

yep. standby

cliche•49m ago

A lot of demand for ‘Sans AI’ :)

almogo•43m ago

Probably by bots :)

chilipepperhott•41m ago

Our AI overlords don't want an AI-free Hacker News

866-RON-0-FEZ•51m ago

Interesting this keeps moving up the front page when the site is inaccessible because it's hosted on a baked potato.

kylecazar•39m ago

I'm curious to find out if they're using a model to detect AI content. I'd be more amused than disappointed. But, alas, potato.

chilipepperhott•39m ago

It's not an LLM.

Why use big program when regex do trick?

kylecazar•34m ago

Master of efficiency

866-RON-0-FEZ•26m ago

But I like using em-dashes?

Bolwin•20m ago

You can get the best of both worlds with a small embedding model

chilipepperhott•7m ago

Show me an embedding model that runs as fast as an optimized regex engine and I'll buy you a beer.

Polizeiposaune•47m ago

Was hoping it was a new font.

0xbadcafebee•35m ago

I have an app that does Hacker News with AI; it analyses all the stories and comments for a number of criteria, and tags them so you can skip stuff you don't want to see. I should get around to actually publishing it but I've been lazy.

One of the fun things I noticed is the psychological impact of framing. A comment that might've made you feel the need to reply before has less emotional weight if it's highlighted in red and a diminished font. Same thing for stories; if you would normally disagree with a story and it would make you want to comment, you feel less like commenting if the story is rated as 'lacking evidence', 'unsupported by research', 'personal anecdotes only', etc. It drives down the feeling of needing to engage. Which is horrible for site engagement, but good for mental health (I think).

simonw•34m ago

I built (well, vibe-coded) a version of this a while back that runs against the Hacker News API, it's static HTML on GitHub Pages so I don't have to run a server for it: https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-filtered

phildenhoff•27m ago

How often do you use it?

Immediately I started thinking how nice it would be to use natural language to have LLMs generate a deterministic filter for stories matching content I DO care about, filtered from New. Instead of filtering it out.

simonw•16m ago

I don't use it myself. I built it for a Hacker News thread where someone else was saying "I wish I could browse Hacker News without all the AI stuff".

zuzululu•15m ago

interesting but i rarely use any HN reader

there's just something about this UI and its consistency

I also don't mind all the AI related news

If anything I just wish they had a mute/block button. its not fun when somebody is stalking you replying to every comment you make.

millerm•33m ago

I can deal with a launch problem. I am looking forward to being able to check it out. I stopped coming to HN as often as I used to because there has been too much AI talk. It's like a dang AI subreddit. I don't want anything to do with AI. I have lost 2 jobs to AI budgets and stupid executive decisions. It's no longer part of my personal and professional life.

I hope it works out.

chilipepperhott•31m ago

Hopefully fixed the cache invalidation. I'm crossing my fingers.

henriquemaia•30m ago

I've been training to naturally ignore AI mentions that I thought this entry was about some HN ui font change (Sans).

geniium•23m ago

Was about to write the same

flexagoon•28m ago

I've been thinking of making something like this for myself for quite a while now, glad I'm not the only one who had the idea and someone actually did it before I got to it

pkage•27m ago

The filter doesn't appear to be perfect, one of the top posts right now is "My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development"

rsyring•13m ago

I guess they could run the titles through a (flash) LLM to catch ones were keyword detection won't cut it.

Have to love the irony. :)

chilipepperhott•10m ago

That should be fixed as soon as my server has a chance to catch up.

hirako2000•24m ago

A problem is it doesn't load as fast. Could it be helped?

chilipepperhott•19m ago

Yes, it can. I am having a major cache invalidation problem. One of the major blights of programmers everywhere.

factorialboy•19m ago

For one sec, I got excited for a new font!

mkw5053•12m ago

Are you using AI to figure out what's about what's AI and what's not?

ares623•12m ago

I've been thinking the same. Couldn't this be done with a browser extension that hides elements that matches a regex?

consumer451•34m ago

73% of users vote prior to reading TFA, according to this research. (I am sometimes guilty of this myself)

We live in a world being dimished by confirmation bias, but this isn't a new thing. Those who wrote/approved the headlines always had more power than those who wrote the articles.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315096490_Consumers...

866-RON-0-FEZ•21m ago

This submission should be studied by people holding clipboards. It needs a follow-up:

"How I made it to the top of HN with zero content beyond a catchy title"

It further proves the key to getting your stuff on HN is not to post interesting content, it's to post something that sounds interesting.

chilipepperhott•18m ago

D1 hater right here.

LearnYouALisp•12m ago

Huh, I didn't even remember to vote for posts, i just scroll down to read (and vote sometimes on comments)

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