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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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Total posts without AI

Index until AI term found

  • 0.

    Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

    Discussion

  • 1.

    Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

    Discussion

  • 2.

    I'm going back to writing code by hand

    Discussion

  • 3.

    The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

    Discussion

  • 4.

    Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

    Discussion

  • 5.

    Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan

    Discussion

  • 6.

    Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer

    Discussion

  • 7.

    Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES

    Discussion

  • 8.

    Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability

    Discussion

  • 9.

    When Is "Next Friday"?

    Discussion

  • 10.

    7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)

    Discussion

  • 11.

    Bliss (Photograph)

    Discussion

  • 12.

    First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed

    Discussion

  • 13.

    Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

    Discussion

  • 14.

    Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years

    Discussion

  • 15.

    dBase: 1979-2026

    Discussion

  • 16.

    I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

    Discussion

  • 17.

    Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars

    Discussion

  • 18.

    Traces Of Humanity

    Discussion

  • 19.

    Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider

    Discussion

  • 20.

    The people preserving the scientific practice of bird banding

    Discussion

  • 21.

    Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors

    Discussion

  • 22.

    Seeing Birdsong

    Discussion

  • 23.

    Idempotency is easy until the second request is different

    Discussion

  • 24.

    The locals don't know

    Discussion

  • 25.

    Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem

    Discussion