* It filters out things that are clearly not AI related (like the one titled ' Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization ') - or maybe it's just slow to update (that post was 3 hours ago)
* No ability to go to the next page
* Order is often different than on HN, even account for the missing posts. It's mostly the same, but not quite, which always throws me for a loop to see if something else is missing.
I don't personally use those apps so I'm not sure, but if they're open source I'm confident you could easily update them to work with my site. In case it's useful, here's the source code https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai
Huh, perhaps there is a project to be done to consume the HN firehose and serve it AT Proto style from the firehose. HN mobile clients can then pick the feed they want. AI? No AI? Politics? No politics? Frameworks? No frameworks? Choose your own HN post feed adventure. Read replica esq consumption, writes (comments, posts, votes) go to the primary data store (HN).
At the bottom of the linked site, it says "79 of 179 submissions survived the filter" so if only ~44% survived I'd say that counts as "prevalent" yeah.
Instead of filtering keywords this ranks the content using Pangram. But it's also pretty effective at filtering content about AI. Turns out that a lot of LLM tooling projects have LLM written project descriptions/blog posts.
It's amazing to see how many of the "AI hurts my brain" posts are apparently written by an LLM.
Great point. I think the key is differentiating between "prompt generated" content vs "AI as a Topic" content and then being able to toggle them at will.
I am not averse to prompt-generated content, but it should be marked and quoted as such, just like any other reference. If it's not, it's like the author is double-cheating.
In fact there are no shortage of comments here on HN, especially open-ended questions that could've been plugged into a bot for an answer. Avoiding LLMs altogether is foolhardy. It's a matter of balance, and being able to write a good prompt is a skill - no mental atrophy there. Content derived from non-English sources using English-based LLMs is also an interesting area. [1]
It's possible to obtain AIaaT from https://aibriefs.news/ and then prune it elsewhere if need be. But the best aggregators like that may be machine-generated with a lot of human moderation. I wonder if that is 100% machine generated.
Nice! I was considering doing this but the Pangram API is very expensive. Then I considered training my own model and I fortunately stopped at the edge of that rabbit hole.
Yea very expensive (hence me siphoning another page haha).
Im trying to get something cheaper to work, Pangram has some nice docs on how to build something like their service https://github.com/pangramlabs/EditLens, they even have training data online.
The harm a missclassification carries is much lower for a hn post than a masters thesis, so we might be fine with a worse model.
Yeah agree, Pangram puts out interesting material. I recently came across their v4 technical report and they shared a lot more than I would have expected them to.
But see, here I am back at the edge of the rabbit hole, and you're trying to pull me in. I refuse!
If you do end up training a model, send me an email and maybe I can tie it into the site.
Will do, thanks for hcker.news btw, has been my main mobile client for couple of months. Of all things i like the changelog most, its nice to have a quick view about new stuff, especially if the website changes somewhat faster than usual.
The AI spam is part of the issue, but not only. Maybe it's rose tinted glasses, but it feel like HN posts and comments quality have dropped significantly compared to ~5 to 10 years ago.
It used to have a lot more really technical subjects, with comments from experts on the topic.
Now days it seems to be a lot more of "hot takes with little nuance from people who have read at most half a Wikipedia page on the topic". And the content itself, being more generalist and less specialized, is no longer unique to HN.
Quality posts and comments do still occur, but they fill more and more needle in an haystack.
Would if be possible to set up push notifications for new stories matching a filter - one that's separate to the main filter? Like say, I want to get notified every time an article about "Linux" is posted. But if I go to main page, I want to see all stories (or whatever my main filter is set to).
Yeah, all possible, the infra for all of that is set up. I think I understand your request but can u send me an email so I can talk it through with you a little more?
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