Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

11 bookofjoe 6 7/15/2025, 2:51:17 PM

I would very much like to enjoy HN the way I did years ago, as a place where I'd discover things that I never otherwise would have come across.

The increasing AI/LLM domination of the site has made it much less appealing to me.

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PaulHoule · 1m ago

This post is turning up at least every other day. The last few times my reply was "AI is 4/30 or 5/30 of the front page, it's not such a big deal", but today it is 9/30.

I am wondering what the ratio is for VC and angel dealflow in the valley right now.

Hanging out on the "new" page and upvoting quality non-AI articles is an effective method of resistance.

alganet · 1m ago

Prevention of bots and other kinds of automation takes precedence over any thematic changes.

If that is done first, we might not need to separate subjects.

toomuchtodo · 6m ago

Feature request: HN could support a tag or label for categorizing a post. This would allow for filtering trivially, and creating views based on participant interest.

PaulHoule · 2m ago

Wouldn't be hard to train an LLM to do it!

toomuchtodo · 48s ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261881

bookofjoe · 4m ago

I second that emotion.

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (holovaty.com)

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google (theverge.com)

MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today (blog.decryption.net.au)

Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update (0x44.xyz)

LLM Inevitabilism (tomrenner.com)

Nvidia won, we all lost (blog.sebin-nyshkim.net)

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (projectionlab.com)

My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] (twitter.com)

Kiro: A new agentic IDE (kiro.dev)

Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized (nodaysoff.run)

Local-first software (2019) (inkandswitch.com)

Introducing tmux-rs (richardscollin.github.io)

Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (generalanalysis.com)

Let me pay for Firefox (discourse.mozilla.org)

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks (github.com)

Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage (maalvika.substack.com)

Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity (metr.org)

Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)" (simonwillison.net)

Are we the baddies? (geohot.github.io)

ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure (ethz.ch)

Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online (ellsberg.substack.com)

At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says (nytimes.com)

The Rise of Whatever (eev.ee)

US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (arstechnica.com)

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (apnews.com)

Tree Borrows (plf.inf.ethz.ch)

Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion (arxiv.org)

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale (recall.ai)

Hidden interface controls that affect usability (interactions.acm.org)

How does a screen work? (makingsoftware.com)

Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds (sfstandard.com)

Linda Yaccarino is leaving X (nytimes.com)

Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels (freyaindia.co.uk)

I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models (github.com)

SVGs that feel like GIFs (koaning.io)

I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links (noperator.dev)

Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza (theguardian.com)

Happy 20th Birthday, Django (djangoproject.com)

Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M (cnbc.com)

Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics (alpha.lisagui.com)

Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE (eff.org)

Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA (open-web-advocacy.org)

Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge (businessinsider.com)

Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels (github.com)

Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean (icm.csic.es)

A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs (addxorrol.blogspot.com)

Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface (patternproject.substack.com)

Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)

The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public (honest-broker.com)

Apple's MLX adding CUDA support (github.com)

Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

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