search for the things that are relevant to you and just ignore the ai stuff. new is the best section imo but its polluted by ai generated crap. also the flagged stuff usually means its a good read lol.

My take is that the "new/" page is spammed with slop articles about AI ("I vibe code something that almost worked? or "Ask HN: How come I can't get as good results with AI as Karpathy says he gets?") but that on most days the voting tends to restore the ratio on the front page. Today looks bad though. I think Open Clawed or whatever it is to blame for the latest wave.

My advice: upvote stories that are not slop about AI, submit stories that are not slop about AI.

Maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/active helps filter out the new article spam? It's where I start, anymore.