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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.

    Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

    Discussion

  • 1.

    Self-hosting my photos with Immich

    Discussion

  • 2.

    I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy

    Discussion

  • 3.

    Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

    Discussion

  • 4.

    Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

    Discussion

  • 5.

    Leaving Intel

    Discussion

  • 6.

    Nook Browser

    Discussion

  • 7.

    Extra Instructions Of The 65XX Series CPU (1996)

    Discussion

  • 8.

    Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer (2014) [pdf]

    Discussion

  • 9.

    Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox

    Discussion

  • 10.

    Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

    Discussion

  • 11.

    Perpetual futures, explained

    Discussion

  • 12.

    Most technical problems are people problems

    Discussion

  • 13.

    Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

    Discussion

  • 14.

    Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963 [video]

    Discussion

  • 15.

    Idempotency keys for exactly-once processing

    Discussion

  • 16.

    Fizz Buzz in CSS

    Discussion

  • 17.

    I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    Discussion

  • 18.

    Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month

    Discussion

  • 19.

    Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

    Discussion

  • 20.

    Tides are weirder than you think

    Discussion

  • 21.

    Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal

    Discussion

  • 22.

    Frank Gehry has died

    Discussion

  • 23.

    EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act

    Discussion

  • 24.

    The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript

    Discussion

  • 25.

    Making RSS More Fun

    Discussion

  • 26.

    How fast can browsers process base64 data?

    Discussion

Total posts without AI

Index until AI term found