| ▲ | peterspath 4 hours ago |
| I wish hacker news had filters, ... if LLM, AI, or other hyped tech... make it hidden |
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| ▲ | toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Build it! Show HN! Let https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news be your inspiration. Put out the tip jar, I will tip! (Firefox first class citizen in this regard pls if possible) |
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| ▲ | Imustaskforhelp 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This actually looks really cool! Especially the dark mode and the feature of showing the comments reply to which actually is something that I wanted as well! Honestly this is how Hackernews should look haha! It does take some time in firefox/zen tho in the start so its not really instant (especially the bars which are shown next to the comment to indicate who they are responding to) For some reason also, Hackernews stopped working when I installed this extension, my wifi may have glitched and I reconnected to wifi so its working now. It's pretty cool fwiw. | |
| ▲ | komali2 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm fairly certain I've seen someone create RSS feeds of HN, in which case your RSS client should be have filtering options. | | |
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| ▲ | firesteelrain 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Someone made one a while back |
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| ▲ | postalcoder 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This should do the trick for you: https://hcker.news/?exclude=llm,vibe,openai,anthropic,claude... |
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| ▲ | malfist 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Top result on that is currently "Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library" so maybe it's not as robust as it sounds. | | |
| ▲ | postalcoder 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Should have made it more clear. These are keyword exclusion filters and the link I provided was to hide llm-related stuff. You're free to add more keywords to the filter. |
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| ▲ | GorbachevyChase 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’d like to see social credit score mechanisms hidden. Reputation systems reinforce cults of celebrity and turns nerds into tyrannical hall monitors. |
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| ▲ | cactusplant7374 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | A lot of it is hidden. If you offend the moderators they put restrictions on your account. | | |
| ▲ | direwolf20 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | No they don't. There are no hidden restrictions on HN. | | |
| ▲ | fzeroracer 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | There are, Dang has talked publicly about some of the mechanisms they've used to try and deter bad posting. Most of them are gone iirc (such as shadow banning and artificially slowing down the site) but rate limiting is still one of the mechanisms they have in place. | |
| ▲ | reaperducer an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I guess you've never been greeted with "You're posting too fast!" on your first post of the day. | |
| ▲ | lossolo an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Depends on what you mean by hidden restrictions. If someone's ability to vote is disabled without notifying them, and they can still upvote or downvote but it has no effect, would you call that a hidden restriction? | | |
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| ▲ | LorenDB 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Ironically, LLMs would be perfect for implementing such a filter. |
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| ▲ | probably_wrong 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | No, they wouldn't. We've been doing Bayesian content (aka spam) filtering for over 20 years, based in no small part on Paul Graham's essay "A plan for spam". According to HP [1], a home computer at the time had a single 1.5Ghz core and 256Mb of RAM. Using LLMs would achieve essentially the same while requiring a couple orders of magnitude more resources. [1] https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/specifications-pers... | | |
| ▲ | alain94040 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Would those filters be keyword-based only? One benefit of an LLM-based filter I can imagine is that it has a much better understanding of the meaning of text. |
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