Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI
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Filtered front page of Hacker News that excludes stories about AI.
The site renders the Hacker News front page but removes submissions tagged or classified as AI-related. Its stated goal is to surface non-AI tech and miscellaneous content that would otherwise be crowded out by the constant stream of LLM news, model releases, and AI opinion pieces. The filter is keyword-based and covers both pro-AI and anti-AI posts. Unlike the main site, it also strips the AI articles that routinely dominate the top 30.
The project was built with AI assistance and uses AI to classify articles-a choice the author acknowledges as ironic. The repo is public and shows a simple Python script that scrapes the HN front page, checks each title against a keyword list, and serves the filtered result.
What commenters are saying
Mixed reception. Many readers welcome a cleaner feed, agreeing that AI stories feel repetitive and crowd out other tech. A vocal counterpoint argues that filtering removes legitimate bleeding-edge content and that the project's AI-built, AI-filtered nature undercuts its premise. Several commenters point out that three similar anti-AI HN filters hit the front page simultaneously, calling it spam. The creator confirms the filter targets stories about AI, not stories written by AI; they also note the site appears to have filtered itself out of its own list. A few users report minor layout bugs on mobile.