Hacker News with AI stories filtered out
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Hi folks,I've noticed that a lot of people here seem exhausted by the amount of AI news on the front page. I shared hcker.news here a year ago and it has since gained a ton of filtering features, including a dedicated AI filter, so I figured I should tell more people about it.The filter works in three passes: 1. Known AI-related keywords and domains are filtered automatically. 2. An agent reviews the remaining articles and removes those it identifies as AI-related. 3. I make the call on uncertain cases. You can also exclude GitHub repos posted to HN that show signs of AI authorship. The filter checks: - Commit messages for agent attribution - Contributors for known coding agents - Repository files for agent instructions and configs No filter will be perfect, but this is as good as it gets. lmk what you think. Cheers.More links:Original Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44075353If you only want AI stories: https://hcker.news/?view=frontpage&ai=includeRSS: https://hcker.news/feeds/atom?period=day&ai=excludeA github-only non-AI feed: https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude&include_domains=github.com
HN · launched Aug 3, 2026 · 52 upvotes (top 14%) · 0 views
Niche: news aggregation platforms · 244 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -54% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a client-side reader for Hacker News using the official Firebase API with text/keyword filtering applied to story titles and domains.
Discussion
11 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Browser extension for client-side AI filtering (Enough AI on HN)
Concerns raised: Only processes subset of submissions, can't fully implement /newest like original HN, Endless AI thinkpieces slip through without obvious AI terms in title, Requires constant list updates to catch new AI content variations
Feature requests: Direct links to HN discussion posts in feed items instead of routing through site, Implement /newest view in addition to current filtered feed, Archive and process all submissions instead of subset
Competitors
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Attention rank: #59 of 317 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 270 days after the earliest competitor.
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