132 pointsby otherayden4 hours ago22 comments
  • karim79an hour ago
    Without AI, using AI to accomplish it's goal. And built using AI.

    My friends we are in the future.

    • ghrl40 minutes ago
      Just what I thought.

      > made with <3 by Ayden

      That's the cherry on the cake - indicating genuine effort and attention to detail put into something, yet not even checking the credit at the bottom.

      • ThePinion36 minutes ago
        Actually a pretty funny joke if intentional.
        • otherayden28 minutes ago
          I am the dev, it was in fact intentional
          • karim7924 minutes ago
            I just love it.
    • shoobiedoo17 minutes ago
      So what. The unabomber used a phone sometimes
  • evgenysokov2 hours ago
    This is a filter for articles about AI, not articles written by AI. I'd actually use the latter. As for the "no AI here" badge, people will soon just put it up themselves. Like llms.txt: you add it, and nobody checks.
    • kazinator2 hours ago
      Submissions of articles written by AI should be flagged on the upstream HN, as should be comments written by AI.
      • lilbigdoot22 minutes ago
        Ngl it would be kinda fun for everyone to meme with each other on slop mode in slop threads
    • nilsherzigan hour ago
      There you go :) https://hnslop.nilsherzig.com/

      as an extension so you can continue to comment and use hn as usual

    • elif2 hours ago
      to certain people, it's all one-in-the-same. the real motivations behind this are a kind of existential human narcissism, a kind of denial-based coping mechanism grounded in a world-view that this industrial-revolution-scale change on society is somehow a passing phase.
      • otherayden2 hours ago
        touch grass
        • elif2 hours ago
          i suppose the correct retort would be to advise you to get your head out of it.
  • kazinator2 hours ago
    It has filtered itself out!

    "Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI" is front page on news.ycombinator.com, absent on unslop.news.

  • japaget37 minutes ago
    The upvote button seems to be broken or non-functional on unslop.news. I am running Windows 10 on a PC desktop with the latest version of MS Edge.
    • otherayden36 minutes ago
      Adding this as an issue, will fix tonight! Edit: I'm realizing to get the upvotes to work I actually need an auth token for the user's HN account so it will have to be a redirect to the HN thread rather than a functional upvote button, but I am going to keep it to stick with the HN design
    • karim7935 minutes ago
      That's intentional. It's a design choice. Get with the programme.
  • bnchrch2 hours ago
    Yes please, take all the bleeding edge tech stories out of the aggregator I go to for bleeding edge tech stories.
    • deniska2 hours ago
      The majority of links about "AI" are not really interesting. "New model released, people who want to avoid thinking can now avoid 7% more thinking according to NoThink benchmark". The top comment: "look at the SVG of a pelican they overfit the model on this time".
    • zephyrthenoble2 hours ago
      While I get what you are saying, from my perspective, there is no longer the same breadth of content on HN, with LLM related content taking up a significant portion of the top posts. Today is actually a pretty good day, with I think 7/30 being LLM related.

      I just don't like having to dig through multiple pages of LLM posts to find other types of tech news. Even if I do read a few here or there, I can't filter them out to look for other stuff. There is other tech out there beyond AI.

      • wesz39 minutes ago
        I feel like simple tagging system for hn submissions would fix that. A couple of predefined tags - single submissions should have at least one tag. User can define list of tags they want to follow and that's it.
    • otherayden2 hours ago
      Yes, bleeding edge tech story = tech story primarily focused on AI
      • Plontan hour ago
        I was unaware that technological progress stopped for everything but LLMs. All other types of technology have achieved their final forms. Wow.

        Seriously though, every AI story feels the same lately. There's:

        1. company wants or gets more compute 2. IPO 3. AI slop is bad 4. AI company executive says something batshit (often because IPO)

        It's gotten pretty boring to read more than the headline for most of these.

      • Plontan hour ago
        I was unaware that technological progress stopped for everything but LLMs. All other types of technology have achieved their final forms. Wow.

        Seriously though, every AI story feels the same lately. There's:

        1. company wants or gets more compute 2. IPO 3. AI slop is bad 4. AI Company Executive says something batshit (often because IPO)

        It's gotten pretty boring to read more than the headline for most of these. It doesn't feel bleeding edge so much as repetitive.

  • vander_elstan hour ago
    Great project I was thinking about doing *exactly* the same. Do you mind sharing your stack?
  • tern31 minutes ago
    A few design bugs in the mobile layout (Chrome)
    • otherayden29 minutes ago
      Ah I have been using safari for testing. Will add this as an issue and fix tonight!
  • daishi5535 minutes ago
    ADS (AI derangement syndrome)
  • VCFundedGenYer28 minutes ago
    This was written with AI, so there's no point here.
  • bana-io3 hours ago
    I actually like the look of this, I especially like being able to set a serif font instead of whatever default is on https://news.ycombinator.com.
  • gnfargbl2 hours ago
    Does "without AI" mean without posts about AI, or without posts written by AI?

    I think this is the former, but I want the latter.

    • otherayden2 hours ago
      I'm the creator, and it is the former. I will consider spending some money on one of the available "AI detector" APIs and making a similar site for the latter. My main problem with them, though, is that I don't think they work very well and even if they work now, I imagine they'd be perpetually behind the newest models
  • 0gs2 hours ago
    links at the top e.g. show redirect to the regular site, i presume they are supposed to go to a filtered version
  • 2 hours ago
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  • bhanu7862 hours ago
    It is espically god for AI researchers like me, is there any other resource, if you knowe would love to explore it
  • burnt-resistoran hour ago
    I love this so much because I hide every "Look at me, I use LLMs and it makes my toast" stories.
  • metalliqaz4 hours ago
    It would be funny if this was vibe coded.
  • teiferer2 hours ago
    Currently there is an article about feeling sad w.r.t. AI on the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661506 That one is filtered out too. Surely nobody is going to claim that it is slop?
    • drusepth2 hours ago
      I mean, that post /is/ entirely about AI.

      The "I love AI" posts are just as bad as the "I hate AI" posts, and the same "this is my opinion on AI" posts are as bad as the onslaught of poorly-AI-vibed demo posts. Makes sense to filter them all out IMO.

      • lukan2 hours ago
        Agreed, but filtering still mostly works by people upvoting or flagging.
  • nphardon3 hours ago
    This is the first attempt I've seen that seems to be working. I like that it's just a acting as a filter and the comment section is linked to the hackernews source. It's really satisfying to not see any Ai bs. I do like how hackernews is limited to 30 front page posts.
    • 2 hours ago
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  • greenowlan hour ago
    Kind of funny that currently the number 1 article is a Show HN for an AI vibe coded slop terminal program.
  • testaccount1212 hours ago
    On the front page:

      Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI (unslop.news)
      Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content (sprinklz.io)
      Show HN: Hacker News, without AI (hcker.news)
    
    Three anti AI HN things on the front page at the same time. Two with the same title. This is spam.
    • allknowingfrog2 hours ago
      Or maybe it reflects a genuine desire from some subset of regular HN readers? Is it spam when three different articles about the latest Anthropic model make the front page? Or the latest Apple product release?
    • kazinator2 hours ago
      But have you heard of https://unslop.news? If you look at HN through that, the above AI-related spam disappears.
    • jefurii2 hours ago
      I think it's useful, and maybe an indication of something positive.
  • Tubelord2 hours ago
    • graypegg37 minutes ago
      Huh... it's not even that hard of a problem to solve right? Maybe I'm insane, but I feel like this is easier to crank out in rails or something than sloppin' it. It's a singular page, with some filtering on one model + a job to add entries on a regular basis with an API call out to openanthrogemingptai.

      We do get the the pinnicle of software quality though: parsing HTML with regex. https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai/blob/007e7b4a6df6...

      • otherayden10 minutes ago
        lol it works though doesn't it?
  • ChrisArchitect4 hours ago
    Current thread:

    Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657850