alt.hn

8/3/2026 at 5:39:56 PM

Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

https://hcker.news/?view=frontpage&ai=exclude

by postalcoder

8/3/2026 at 8:22:22 PM

I don't normally read the front page, more /newest

Any chance of implementing that?

Your site works with my Firefox auto-pager, which is really nice for archiving posts for later search.

by k310

8/3/2026 at 9:19:38 PM

Hmm, right now I only process a subset of all submissions to keep things lean, so this is the closest that the site can do to /newest right now: https://hcker.news/?filter=top200&ai=exclude

Feel free to email me.

by postalcoder

8/3/2026 at 10:27:54 PM

No problem, and thanks. I understand the size of the problem, and why the above link is "most upvoted"

By archiving all, I can easily filter titles as text, if I really wanted to do so, but it's not all that important for me. grep -v works!

Again, thanks for the effort.

by k310

8/3/2026 at 6:07:28 PM

I also built a browser extension to do this client-side. It just auto-clicks the Hide links for any story with an AI-related term. Source & Firefox add-on link here: https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn

by coldpie

8/3/2026 at 6:16:31 PM

There are a lot of ways of tackling this, but the only way to truly filter everything out is to update the list constantly.

My filter currently has 146 keyword filters and 101 domain filters. Even with those, I've had to filter almost 400 exact urls on top of that in the past two weeks!

by postalcoder

8/3/2026 at 6:22:22 PM

Definitely a lot of approaches. I like that mine is dead simple & runs in the browser; but an advantage to a deeper inspection like yours is it will catch those endless AI thinkpieces that don't obviously stick an AI term in the title. Pros & cons!

by coldpie

8/3/2026 at 7:40:35 PM

Awesome! Finally the hacker news I originally came for

by LunicLynx

8/3/2026 at 6:22:10 PM

Thank you!

by krunck

8/3/2026 at 6:24:38 PM

Same to you – glad you like it!

by postalcoder