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Ask HN: Can we get a section dedicated to AI

24 pointsthedangler13 comments

I'm wondering id we can do a "AI HN" or something where all AI posts can go, like openAI or chatGPT. The amount of content about AI is slowly dominating and I think its time to add a section for those topics.

Thanks

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There are no link specific sections on HN, only submissions and comments. One can filter out some of the submissions using uBlock Origin [1]. LLM's are today what blockchain was some time ago. It should eventually start to fade.

To filter in uBlock:

Addons -> uBlock Origin -> Preferences -> My Filters, Append something like:

    # top (title / url)
    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(lockchain|202[3-9]$|GPT|LLM|OpenAI)/):upward(tr)
    # bottom (stats / comments)
    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(lockchain|202[3-9]$|GPT|LLM|OpenAI)/):upward(tr) + *

It's not perfect but that would hide some of the blockchain submissions, some that have title that ends with a year and a few of the LLM submissions. This example could probably be improved quite a bit. Edit as you see fit.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

You’ve been here since 2010, you should know that HN doesn’t have topics and trying to create them would start to make this community something it is not.

AI is dominating the tech news due to its impact in many sectors, unfortunately the rocks available to hide under will become fewer, and this is just a reflection of the world we live in.

My uBlockOrigin rules to filter posts by regexp, to filter out Twitter drama and AI stuff. The last two rules remove the second row + the spacer.

news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(LLM):upward(tr):remove() news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/OpenAI\b/):upward(tr):remove() news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bstable\Wdiffusion\b/i):upward(tr):remove() news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bdall-e\b/i):upward(tr):remove() news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bChatGPT/i):upward(tr):remove() news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bGPT/):upward(tr):remove()

news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bTwitter\b/):upward(tr):remove() news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bMusk\b/):upward(tr):remove()

news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.spacer + tr:not(.athing):remove() news.ycombinator.com##html:not([op="item"]) tr.spacer + tr.spacer:remove()

I see 2 out of 30 posts about AI on the front page and counted 7 out of 30 on new. Doesn’t seem like a crisis to me. On the other hand I’m the kind of person who thinks the solution to “too many irrelevant feed items” is to make an A.I. that filters them.

Aw man I’d love that. All this ai babble is really wearing on me.

At least it isn't as bad as the crypto hype cycle.

You're asking for a personal adjustment to a public website.

The AI content is dominating due to a voting system.

AI is what's currently trending, so we'll see lots of posts about it. Give it a few months and some other topic will be trending; no need to completely rethink HN (effectively adding subreddits) to address what is almost certainly temporary.

I don’t think that will happen.

In this comment 'dang explains his thoughts about keeping HN as a “non-siloed” site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27608856

Wouldn’t want to see separate “topics” on hn, but would love to see posting of chatgpt content banned/discouraged - trying to figure out if a comment was written by a human or ai is tiring

Everything will go the AI way so it reflects reality accurately

That will break the beauty of HN in my humble.

Ask ChatGPT to create one.

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