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

Who Should Read

A developer who follows tech trends on HN and is tired of AI posts

Core Mechanics

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  • Everything below comes from comments and is covered in the community reactions.

Community Reactions

• Opinion that AI fills the front page
  • One commenter spot-checked and saw 5 to 8 of the top 10 posts were AI or adjacent.
  • Others said they miss programming articles and small side projects.
• Pushback that it isn't a flood
  • One commenter reported 21 of 30 front-page posts were non-AI at 13:15 UTC.
  • Many argued that upvotes show the community wants these topics.
• Opinion that hype cycles rotate
  • Commenters listed blockchain (2017-2018), Rails, Rust and others as past dominant topics.
  • They expect AI to quiet down like RoR eventually.
• Ways people filter it themselves
  • One commenter uses a uBlock Origin rule to hide rows containing AI keywords.
  • Others suggested an AI-filtered HN site and Hacker Newsletter as alternatives.
  • A commenter noted the second chance pool already gives buried posts a human bump.

How to Apply

• Hide AI posts with uBlock Origin
  • Paste the commenter's rule into your uBlock Origin custom filters today.
  • Edit the has-text regex keywords to match what you want to avoid.
  • Add keywords whenever something slips through.
• Subscribe to a curated newsletter like Hacker Newsletter
  • Get trends from a human-picked digest instead of the live feed.
  • Replace daily front-page checks with a weekly summary.
• Check the second chance pool
  • Open its list when you want non-AI posts that got buried.
  • Upvote the ones you like to help them surface.

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Related Resources

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657850
• https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai
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