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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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Index until AI term found

Total posts without AI

  • 0.

    Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript

    Discussion

  • 1.

    Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

    Discussion

  • 2.

    We Were Right About Havana Syndrome

    Discussion

  • 3.

    Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)

    Discussion

  • 4.

    Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS

    Discussion

  • 5.

    BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs

    Discussion

  • 6.

    The MacBook Neo

    Discussion

  • 7.

    Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals

    Discussion

  • 8.

    5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy

    Discussion

  • 9.

    Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included

    Discussion

  • 10.

    Wiz joins Google

    Discussion

  • 11.

    Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads

    Discussion

  • 12.

    What Is a Tort?

    Discussion

  • 13.

    Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure

    Discussion

  • 14.

    Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids

    Discussion

  • 15.

    Fungal Electronics (2021)

    Discussion

  • 16.

    Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)

    Discussion

  • 17.

    The mechanics of autonomous software translation

    Discussion

  • 18.

    The Darkness from the Darkness

    Discussion

  • 19.

    Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight

    Discussion

  • 20.

    Show HN: I built an ISP infrastructure emulator from scratch with a custom vBNG

    Discussion