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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.

    Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone?

    Discussion

  • 1.

    Ggml v1.0.0

    Discussion

  • 2.

    Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side

    Discussion

  • 3.

    Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B Quantizations – Dynamic v3.1 Update

    Discussion

  • 4.

    Terminal borders that don't cost a cell

    Discussion

  • 5.

    FAA issues national ground stop – lifted 4.5 hours later

    Discussion

  • 6.

    Let's Write a PostScript Interpreter

    Discussion

  • 7.

    What happened to 3Com?

    Discussion

  • 8.

    Show HN: Live map of U.S. flights during tonight's FAA nationwide ground stop

    Discussion

  • 9.

    Found: A protein that drives ageing without unleashing inflammation

    Discussion

  • 10.

    FM-1 Workbench

    Discussion

  • 11.

    Service Crew Discovers Rare Yellow Burbot in Oswego Harbor

    Discussion

  • 12.

    The curious case of the north-east arrow

    Discussion

  • 13.

    Live airband on all frequencies from KORS. Victoria, CA also ground stopped

    Discussion

  • 14.

    How Not to Build a Music Player

    Discussion

  • 15.

    After 600 experiments, here's what I discovered about JEPA world models

    Discussion

  • 16.

    Show HN: I have trained 15 blood glucose forecasting models on my own data

    Discussion

  • 17.

    Extending LLDB to Debug Applications That Span CPUs and GPUs

    Discussion

  • 18.

    Show HN: Isometric SF – A pixel-art map of the SF Bay Area

    Discussion

  • 19.

    Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming

    Discussion

  • 20.

    Minnesota guitarist's "palmfrets" invention strikes a new chord

    Discussion

  • 21.

    Elephants found to be increasingly isolated leading to fractured social networks

    Discussion

  • 22.

    Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud

    Discussion

  • 23.

    The Other Nefertiti (2015)

    Discussion

  • 24.

    A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem

    Discussion

  • 25.

    Amtrak booking system experiencing major issues amid nationwide FAA ground stop

    Discussion

  • 26.

    Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust

    Discussion