Yeah, it's become such a boring AI marketing outlet.

Was thinking the same thing. I love Hacker News, but perhaps an AI filter on the site would be really useful.

I would agree. While not quite what you’re looking for, I recently built a site, RNKFlow.com (Rank Flow), to bring in multiple tech/science feeds including HN and Product Hunt to pull in more interesting posts. There is a filter option so can search across all feeds and only see what you’re interested in. Also an alerting function where you can add keyword tags and get an email digest. And Categories to limit posts only Robotics or Show HN/PH as an example. So not quite what you’re going after, but maybe a better overall experience for you.

I miss the old look what someone built vibe too. There is still good stuff in Show HN threads but it does take more digging now than it used to.

Lobste.rd for general tech, specific subreddits or Discord communities for narrower topics. HN is probably not coming back from this one the AI industry is too concentrated in the same demographic that posts there.

I’ve updated the RNKFlow.com filter to use a comma separated list of terms. Using a negative term will filter out stories you don’t want to see. If you sign in, you can save a default filter list and I’ve made it part of the free tier. Hope this helps a bit.

I've been thinking for a while to create an AI tool to classify articles (not just on HN), and filter the ones I'm not in the mood for.

Everything on HN these days get downvoted to Oblivion. And people are heavily pushing ai and cloud products, the builder/hacker mindset is gone imho.

Everything that's not AI is just irrelevant. AI is diverse enough to replace the other things you'd talk about.

lobster?

boring AI marketing outlet.

Hard to meet the criteria exactly but maybe poke around some of these older threads for some ideas:

Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611708

Ask HN: What are some communities like HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37616919

On a skim just now one that jumped out at me was https://tildes.net

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