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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.

    Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

    Discussion

  • 1.

    QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

    Discussion

  • 2.

    The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)

    Discussion

  • 3.

    An iroh powered smart fan

    Discussion

  • 4.

    An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation

    Discussion

  • 5.

    Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet

    Discussion

  • 6.

    SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

    Discussion

  • 7.

    Good Tools Are Invisible

    Discussion

  • 8.

    Combustion engine web-based simulator

    Discussion

  • 9.

    Silent speech with ultrasound

    Discussion

  • 10.

    The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)

    Discussion

  • 11.

    Late Bronze Age Collapse

    Discussion

  • 12.

    After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell

    Discussion

  • 13.

    Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit

    Discussion

  • 14.

    New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices

    Discussion

  • 15.

    Computation as a universal and fundamental concept

    Discussion

  • 16.

    The Lindy effect in software

    Discussion

  • 17.

    Alternate clock designs and time systems

    Discussion

  • 18.

    Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

    Discussion

  • 19.

    What's the best way to do authentication in modern applications

    Discussion

  • 20.

    GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years

    Discussion

  • 21.

    A love letter to flashcards

    Discussion

  • 22.

    Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church

    Discussion

  • 23.

    Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring

    Discussion

  • 24.

    Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019)

    Discussion

  • 25.

    Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

    Discussion

  • 26.

    War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

    Discussion

Total posts without AI

Index until AI term found