Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

You could try a browser extension that just filters all terms like LLM, AI, agent, agentic and removes those posts.

Or better yet, call back to a certain classic and replace those words with "butt" and keep them in.

Then your front page will simply be filled with things like:

"Show HN: Look what I did with my butt."

"This new butt harness will revolutionize butt coding."

https://hackaday.com/

You might want to refine your question. The real problem is the author not having something interesting to say in their own voice. The lack of perspective and insight to share is disrespectful to the reader.

With this broader definition, you'll find there's a ton of other slop we've long since needed to clean up. It's one thing to at least share something mildly interesting, but there's still a lot of points farming and ragebait that has brought down the enjoyability of reading HN.

Maybe there could be an AI-generated HN mirror: the AI would monitor HN continuously, and filter out the AI related news. Fight fire with fire.

comp.lang.c

https://bubbles.town/ is fun.

I think the interesting thing is that if you look at /new, actually the community and moderation system is already holding back a fantastic volume of AI slop and “slop about AI”. It would be fair to say “HN has too much stuff about AI” and “the HN community is hostile/skeptical of AI”, in fact you hear both in the comments all the time.

https://hcker.news has an optional AI filter. I don't know how accurate it is.

Just wait a year. It will die down just like crypto and NFTs did. Hype goes in cycles.

Good luck with that. If something is easily accessible, it will be accessed by easy people, and if it can flood a platform, it will. Easy people don't care. Easy people will never care.

Try https://lobste.rs/, not completely without ai news but much better.