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There is literally an input box to put terms you want to exclude...

The prompt asks for "filters out specific search terms", not "intelligently filter out any AI-related keywords." So yes, a good example of the power of vibe coding: the LLM built a tool according to the prompt.

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> The prompt asks for "filters out specific search terms"

So if I want a front page free of LLM "agents" but also want to view stories about secret agents it will do that, right?

See comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44571740#44572312

The prompt was to exclude llm and ai by default though

the prompt was "default to "llm, ai"", which is exactly what it did. Nothing in the prompt about defaulting to other related terms

it's irony

And that title didn't contain either of those words...what is the complaint again?

if all you want is word filtering in the title, you can simply write an adblock rule.

But how are you supposed to hype AI by using old tech like that?

Have AI write the rule and an article about having AI write the rule.

because the point is literally to filter based on vibes not precise keywords

That is not what the prompt I saw above asked for. It took him a few min. Write your own with a semantic based filter instead of a keyword based filter if that's what you want.

So I have to stay up to date on AI stories just to know what buzzwords I should filter so I don't see AI stories?

Sounds to me like you want a deeper version of this that uses AI instead of keywords to help filter out AI stories.

At a certain point it’s ironic

I think we're well past that stage. Using AI to escape AI. Does that count?

I think there’s another step here: Using AI to build tools that use AI to escape AI.

Eventually: using AI to build tools that use AI to escape AI using tools that use AI.

> using AI to build tools that use AI to escape AI using tools that use AI

Few illustrations are so absurd yet feasible enough to depict as horrendous a reality as this.

Clearly the US needs a constitutional amendment to preserve the right to keep and bear AI tools. Then we can arm the victims of AI tools with their own AI tools, for self-defense. If we're lucky, AI will send its AI thoughts and AI prayers in carefully calculated quantities.

Better yet, such expressions would be categorized as tokens of condolence at no expense to the public. Subsidized by the arms manufacturers.

Lol, yup. See azath92 comment - https://www.hackernews.coffee/

Add the buzzword when you see a story you don't like. Or settle with it filtering 90% of the AI content and just don't click on whatever remains, I doubt you expect the top story to be interesting to you 100% of the time.

Our brain decodes info based on context and extrapolation

This submission we're commenting on could be about filtering out any data, not just AI stuff. Politics, crypto, AI etc. Or more minute like "Trump" "fracking" "bitcoin" etc.

In any of these scenarios, with a tool designed to filter out content based on limited context, when would you ever be perfectly satisfied?

would you like AI to help you build the perfect context-filter model?

And certainly in our anti-politics filter we’d want to include the filtering of stories that promote the extreme political position that tech is somehow detached from politics! (Especially Silicon Valley startup tech that owes so much to the local politics and economy of California).

Which is to say, filtering politics out is absurd, one person’s extreme politics is another’s default view of the universe.

In a similar vein, I’ve had people assert (in all seriousness), their English had no discernible accent because they were American.

It’s a similar kind of mindset.

Isn't it enough to bury yourself under the rock? - you want the fact of your having done so concealed from you also? But what about the fact of wanting that?

That's how any filtering service works

sounds like you need an AI to sort out and predict what you won't want to see ;)

...Yes? This is how this tool is coded. Machines do what one codes them to do, not what one wants them to do. If you're interested in making a more intelligent tool you can do it. This tool does exactly what @simonw says it does.

How about a version with LLM integration that detects "AI" related stories in a more clever way? /s

A tool was offered that can accomplish what you want, with a very small amount of added effort on your part.

No, you do not have to "stay up to date on AI stories"—if you see one, add the keyword to the list and move on. There are not as many buzzwords as you seem to be implying, anyways.

If you are dissatisfied, you are welcome to build your own intelligent version (but I am not sure this will be straightforward without the use of AI).

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