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I wish hacker news had filters, ... if LLM, AI, or other hyped tech... make it hidden

firesteelrain 9mo ago
Someone made one a while back
toomuchtodo 9mo ago
Build it! Show HN! Let https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news be your inspiration. Put out the tip jar, I will tip! (Firefox first class citizen in this regard pls if possible)
- komali2 9mo ago
  I'm fairly certain I've seen someone create RSS feeds of HN, in which case your RSS client should be have filtering options.
  - mindcrime 9mo ago
    You don't need to "create" an RSS feed, HN has RSS. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss and/or https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss
- Imustaskforhelp 9mo ago
  This actually looks really cool! Especially the dark mode and the feature of showing the comments reply to which actually is something that I wanted as well! Honestly this is how Hackernews should look haha! It does take some time in firefox/zen tho in the start so its not really instant (especially the bars which are shown next to the comment to indicate who they are responding to) For some reason also, Hackernews stopped working when I installed this extension, my wifi may have glitched and I reconnected to wifi so its working now. It's pretty cool fwiw.
GorbachevyChase 9mo ago
I’d like to see social credit score mechanisms hidden. Reputation systems reinforce cults of celebrity and turns nerds into tyrannical hall monitors.
- cactusplant7374 9mo ago
  A lot of it is hidden. If you offend the moderators they put restrictions on your account.
  - direwolf20 9mo ago
    No they don't. There are no hidden restrictions on HN.
    - reaperducer 9mo ago
      I guess you've never been greeted with "You're posting too fast!" on your first post of the day.
    - lossolo 9mo ago
      Depends on what you mean by hidden restrictions. If someone's ability to vote is disabled without notifying them, and they can still upvote or downvote but it has no effect, would you call that a hidden restriction?
      - direwolf20 9mo ago
        [dead]
    - fzeroracer 9mo ago
      There are, Dang has talked publicly about some of the mechanisms they've used to try and deter bad posting. Most of them are gone iirc (such as shadow banning and artificially slowing down the site) but rate limiting is still one of the mechanisms they have in place.
LorenDB 9mo ago
Ironically, LLMs would be perfect for implementing such a filter.
- probably_wrong 9mo ago
  No, they wouldn't. We've been doing Bayesian content (aka spam) filtering for over 20 years, based in no small part on Paul Graham's essay "A plan for spam". According to HP [1], a home computer at the time had a single 1.5Ghz core and 256Mb of RAM. Using LLMs would achieve essentially the same while requiring a couple orders of magnitude more resources. [1] https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/specifications-personal-computers-over-time https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/specifications-pers...
  - alain94040 9mo ago
    Would those filters be keyword-based only? One benefit of an LLM-based filter I can imagine is that it has a much better understanding of the meaning of text.
postalcoder 9mo ago
This should do the trick for you: https://hcker.news/?exclude=llm,vibe,openai,anthropic,claude,chatgpt,agent,gemini,mistral,AI,slop,mcp,deepseek https://hcker.news/?exclude=llm,vibe,openai,anthropic,claude...
- malfist 9mo ago
  Top result on that is currently "Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library" so maybe it's not as robust as it sounds.
  - postalcoder 9mo ago
    Should have made it more clear. These are keyword exclusion filters and the link I provided was to hide llm-related stuff. You're free to add more keywords to the filter.
charles_f 9mo ago
I made a bookmarklet for that back when ChatGTP was introduced - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33890678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33890678. It needs updating, but the gist should still work. javascript:(function() {function match(text) {return text.match(/((chat\s?g[pt]{2})|claude|llm|gen\s?ai|((^|\s)ai(\s|$))|anthropic|mistral|gemini|open\s?ai|prompt\sengineer|prompt\sinject)/i)}; if (document.getElementsByClassName("comment-tree").length) { Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName("comtr")).filter(elt => match(elt.innerText)).forEach(e => e.parentNode.removeChild(e)); } else { Array.from(document.getElementsByTagName("a")).filter(elt => match(elt.innerText)).forEach(a => { const tr = a.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode; const table = tr.parentNode; const details = tr.nextSibling; const spacer = details?.nextSibling; table.removeChild(tr); if (details) table.removeChild(details); if (spacer)table.removeChild(spacer);});}})();

Someone made one a while back

Build it! Show HN! Let https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news be your inspiration. Put out the tip jar, I will tip! (Firefox first class citizen in this regard pls if possible)

komali2 9mo ago
I'm fairly certain I've seen someone create RSS feeds of HN, in which case your RSS client should be have filtering options.
- mindcrime 9mo ago
  You don't need to "create" an RSS feed, HN has RSS. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss and/or https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss https://news.ycombinator.com/bigrss
Imustaskforhelp 9mo ago
This actually looks really cool! Especially the dark mode and the feature of showing the comments reply to which actually is something that I wanted as well! Honestly this is how Hackernews should look haha! It does take some time in firefox/zen tho in the start so its not really instant (especially the bars which are shown next to the comment to indicate who they are responding to) For some reason also, Hackernews stopped working when I installed this extension, my wifi may have glitched and I reconnected to wifi so its working now. It's pretty cool fwiw.

GorbachevyChase 9mo ago

I’d like to see social credit score mechanisms hidden. Reputation systems reinforce cults of celebrity and turns nerds into tyrannical hall monitors.

cactusplant7374 9mo ago
A lot of it is hidden. If you offend the moderators they put restrictions on your account.
- direwolf20 9mo ago
  No they don't. There are no hidden restrictions on HN.
  - reaperducer 9mo ago
    I guess you've never been greeted with "You're posting too fast!" on your first post of the day.
  - lossolo 9mo ago
    Depends on what you mean by hidden restrictions. If someone's ability to vote is disabled without notifying them, and they can still upvote or downvote but it has no effect, would you call that a hidden restriction?
    - direwolf20 9mo ago
      [dead]
  - fzeroracer 9mo ago
    There are, Dang has talked publicly about some of the mechanisms they've used to try and deter bad posting. Most of them are gone iirc (such as shadow banning and artificially slowing down the site) but rate limiting is still one of the mechanisms they have in place.

LorenDB 9mo ago

Ironically, LLMs would be perfect for implementing such a filter.

probably_wrong 9mo ago
No, they wouldn't. We've been doing Bayesian content (aka spam) filtering for over 20 years, based in no small part on Paul Graham's essay "A plan for spam". According to HP [1], a home computer at the time had a single 1.5Ghz core and 256Mb of RAM. Using LLMs would achieve essentially the same while requiring a couple orders of magnitude more resources. [1] https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/specifications-personal-computers-over-time https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/specifications-pers...
- alain94040 9mo ago
  Would those filters be keyword-based only? One benefit of an LLM-based filter I can imagine is that it has a much better understanding of the meaning of text.

postalcoder 9mo ago

This should do the trick for you: https://hcker.news/?exclude=llm,vibe,openai,anthropic,claude,chatgpt,agent,gemini,mistral,AI,slop,mcp,deepseek https://hcker.news/?exclude=llm,vibe,openai,anthropic,claude...

malfist 9mo ago
Top result on that is currently "Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library" so maybe it's not as robust as it sounds.
- postalcoder 9mo ago
  Should have made it more clear. These are keyword exclusion filters and the link I provided was to hide llm-related stuff. You're free to add more keywords to the filter.

charles_f 9mo ago

I made a bookmarklet for that back when ChatGTP was introduced - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33890678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33890678. It needs updating, but the gist should still work. javascript:(function() {function match(text) {return text.match(/((chat\s?g[pt]{2})|claude|llm|gen\s?ai|((^|\s)ai(\s|$))|anthropic|mistral|gemini|open\s?ai|prompt\sengineer|prompt\sinject)/i)}; if (document.getElementsByClassName("comment-tree").length) { Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName("comtr")).filter(elt => match(elt.innerText)).forEach(e => e.parentNode.removeChild(e)); } else { Array.from(document.getElementsByTagName("a")).filter(elt => match(elt.innerText)).forEach(a => { const tr = a.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode; const table = tr.parentNode; const details = tr.nextSibling; const spacer = details?.nextSibling; table.removeChild(tr); if (details) table.removeChild(details); if (spacer)table.removeChild(spacer);});}})();