Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content
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HN · launched Aug 5, 2026 · 24 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: news aggregation platforms · 244 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -54% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 244 launches in news aggregation platforms →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a duplicate concept of unslop news, functioning as an HN scraper and aggregator that uses keyword filtering or basic model classification to demote AI-centric posts.
Discussion
18 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: hn-without-ai.vercel.app (LLM classification approach), Hackernews original site
Concerns raised: Filtering accuracy/false positives (DeepMind CEO, AI model articles appearing), No clear explanation of curation methodology on site, Requires JavaScript (vs HN's no-JS approach), Performance concerns with large datasets (LLM-call-per-article limitation)
Feature requests: Dashboard visible in logged-out view to show ranking params, Improve filtering to distinguish AI-generated content from AI-related discussions, Reduce JavaScript dependency for better compatibility
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1615 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #299 of 1616 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 279 days after the earliest competitor.
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