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Hacker News Without AI

The Hacker News posts without AI-related terms (hopefully).


Why?

Sometimes I just want to read something interesting without stepping in a new tool that will improve my productivity by 10^32x or that will make me code 32^10x faster.

The "AI terms" are just a .json array file with a bunch of words that I remembered + some words suggested by AI (I guess my productivity is already 10^32x improved now). These terms are searched in the post titles, which are removed from the list if they contain any of them.

Of course, this is not a perfect solution, and I certainly miss a lot of terms, but this is just something to clear out the noise a bit.

Some stats

I also decided to keep some information about this, which I present in two charts.

Below is the chart that shows how many posts you could read before encountering a term related to AI. Small numbers may indicate that posts with titles containing AI terms are considered "interesting" and rise more quickly to the top positions, making it harder to avoid reading posts with these terms since they appear among the first items.

Below is the other chart that shows how many posts without AI-related terms were found on the Hacker News front page. The total number of posts there is 30, so the closer to 30, the fewer posts with AI were found.

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  • 0.

    Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)

    Discussion

  • 1.

    Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

    Discussion

  • 2.

    Julia 1.13 Highlights

    Discussion

  • 3.

    Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

    Discussion

  • 4.

    Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003)

    Discussion

  • 5.

    Global Shortage Has Led to Motor Oil Rationing at Costco

    Discussion

  • 6.

    Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

    Discussion

  • 7.

    JetKVM Mini

    Discussion

  • 8.

    Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

    Discussion

  • 9.

    Making Startups Powerful

    Discussion

  • 10.

    Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust

    Discussion

  • 11.

    Bad Code Is Kudzu

    Discussion

  • 12.

    CUDA for AMD on Windows

    Discussion

  • 13.

    Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video]

    Discussion

  • 14.

    Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562

    Discussion

  • 15.

    I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc

    Discussion

  • 16.

    Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3)

    Discussion

  • 17.

    Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices

    Discussion

  • 18.

    'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet

    Discussion

  • 19.

    TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio

    Discussion

  • 20.

    Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)

    Discussion

  • 21.

    Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

    Discussion

  • 22.

    Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents

    Discussion

Index until AI term found

Total posts without AI