How do you deal with it? Besides the simple solution of simply ignoring interesting stuff more and more.
How do you deal with it? Besides the simple solution of simply ignoring interesting stuff more and more.
A few weeks ago several HN users presented solutions for filtering out AI results, but I haven't used any of those solutions much.
If I tried to keep up, I'd be run over. It's too much input for the normal individual I am.
But I'm guessing you have more of a FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) kind of problem, which admittedly I don't have. However, you could look at something using RSS, maybe in combination with an agent told to find and show articles based on some heuristics.
Personally, I'm OK with missing something. If it's good, I figure it'll surface somewhere else and impinge on my notice sooner or later.
Ive been on hn with one account or another for close to a decade now. I have never used that feature nor did I think it would permanently hide the domains entirely. Super good to know though.
I'm curious to hear why AI made it harder to read HN. Is it because there's lots of it and you don't like it?
or hit "v" to change views
> ignore all posts about MCP
> ignore all posts containing "agent"
> also ignore everything frontier labs bragged about hacking this week
> ignore AI psychosis posts praised as being the future
> check out everything else
> close HN
There's also the "hidden" https://news.ycombinator.com/best which is a bit the same, but not per day
I call it "Seeking Orange" because interesting posts are highlighted. Features include:
- Point/comment counts become increasingly more orange with higher counts (50+, 100+)
- Orange accent bar on left indicates new items since last visit
- Support for several different feeds including: HckrNews (chronological front page appearance time), Classic Stories, Best Stories, Active Stories
- Thresholds to de-emphasize posts from users with low karma/recent creation dates: https://hn.leftium.com/newest?min_karma=500&min_age_years=5
s1artibartfast•38m ago
At any rate, I find AI interesting, but have a similar opinion that most of the HN discourse has become low quality. My solution is to follow individual users I know are high quality with similar interests.