Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?

I'm not the first to opine that recently there seems to be an effect on HN whereby the AI hypetrain has essentially drowned out discussions of anything other than stories either directly or indirectly related to AI and other terrible decisions coming out of the US.

While I do often have the instinct to completely bury my head in the sand and try to forget it's all happening I'm more concerned with the psychological impact it's having. I'm basically sick and tired of being so sick and tired and exposure to so many continuously miserable headlines isn't helping. What I would like instead is a return to the days when HN was a forum that still showcased cool things people were working on and included discussions on topics outside of the AI-saturated lens that now dominates.

If any good alternatives exist I'd like to join! Or perhaps there are some means of using HN that would allow me to filter the AI noise a bit better. If anyone has had any success with this please let me know!

35 分 | 作者 summonerOS 13小时前

13 条评论

  • lordkrandel 9小时前
    Yeah, it's become such a boring AI marketing outlet.
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    • red-iron-pine 1小时前
      HN is the news aggregator for an incubator / startup factory. The guy in charge of OpenAI used to run HN.

      With respect, what did you expect this place to be?

  • sagrd 9小时前
    Was thinking the same thing. I love Hacker News, but perhaps an AI filter on the site would be really useful.
  • maryamshafaqat 1小时前
    I miss the old look what someone built vibe too. There is still good stuff in Show HN threads but it does take more digging now than it used to.
  • JCSlim 5小时前
    I would agree. While not quite what you’re looking for, I recently built a site, RNKFlow.com (Rank Flow), to bring in multiple tech/science feeds including HN and Product Hunt to pull in more interesting posts. There is a filter option so can search across all feeds and only see what you’re interested in. Also an alerting function where you can add keyword tags and get an email digest. And Categories to limit posts only Robotics or Show HN/PH as an example. So not quite what you’re going after, but maybe a better overall experience for you.
  • JCSlim 4小时前
    I’ve updated the RNKFlow.com filter to use a comma separated list of terms. Using a negative term will filter out stories you don’t want to see. If you sign in, you can save a default filter list and I’ve made it part of the free tier. Hope this helps a bit.
  • Leena-ch 8小时前
    Lobste.rd for general tech, specific subreddits or Discord communities for narrower topics. HN is probably not coming back from this one the AI industry is too concentrated in the same demographic that posts there.
  • Maledictus 8小时前
    I've been thinking for a while to create an AI tool to classify articles (not just on HN), and filter the ones I'm not in the mood for.
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    • summonerOS 8小时前
      Ironically you would miss the articles proclaiming your new invention is the next big thing! /sarcasm
    • chistev 7小时前
      I think one was posted a while ago.
  • Ecys 4小时前
    Everything that's not AI is just irrelevant. AI is diverse enough to replace the other things you'd talk about.
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    • piuvas 3小时前
      subpar ragebait, try harder.
  • ChrisArchitect 15分钟前
    Hard to meet the criteria exactly but maybe poke around some of these older threads for some ideas:

    Ask HN: Sites like HN on other topics?

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611708

    Ask HN: What are some communities like HN?

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37616919

    On a skim just now one that jumped out at me was https://tildes.net

  • faangguyindia 8小时前
    Everything on HN these days get downvoted to Oblivion. And people are heavily pushing ai and cloud products, the builder/hacker mindset is gone imho.
  • dundunUp 8小时前
    boring AI marketing outlet.
  • pogue 9小时前
    lobster?
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  • chengyongru 9小时前
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