Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
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5 hours ago
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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!

Leena-ch
6 minutes ago
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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.
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Maledictus
29 minutes ago
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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
11 minutes ago
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Ironically you would miss the articles proclaiming your new invention is the next big thing! /sarcasm
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lordkrandel
46 minutes ago
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Yeah, it's become such a boring AI marketing outlet.
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sagrd
1 hour ago
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Was thinking the same thing. I love Hacker News, but perhaps an AI filter on the site would be really useful.
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faangguyindia
38 minutes ago
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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.
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pogue
45 minutes ago
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lobster?
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summonerOS
37 minutes ago
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You're referring to https://lobste.rs/ ?
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pogue
34 minutes ago
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Correct
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summonerOS
12 minutes ago
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Had a browse and it is definitely reminiscent of HN's early days! Thanks for the recommendation :)
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