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

16 bookofjoe 7 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.

Comments (7)

PaulHoule · 3m 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.

toomuchtodo · 8m 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 · 5m ago

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

toomuchtodo · 3m ago

Indeed! Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261825

bookofjoe · 6m ago

I second that emotion.

alganet · 3m 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.

HN lacks even the most basic aspects of human verification.

rasengan · 1m ago

Unfortunately, this is simply a by product of the fact that this is both news and the state of the world.

Like most it too will come to pass (as it is further adopted in the mainstream and becomes commonplace).