Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

There are very few sites such as Hacker News around. Looking for one that is similar in quality, but with a slightly different focus is going to be disappointing.

Perhaps it helps to consider why you'd exactly want this? You may be better off not visiting any such site, and instead focus on real human-in-the-loop activities with a group of local hackers.

You could try a browser extension that just filters all terms like LLM, AI, agent, agentic and removes those posts.

Or better yet, call back to a certain classic and replace those words with "butt" and keep them in.

Then your front page will simply be filled with things like:

"Show HN: Look what I did with my butt."

"This new butt harness will revolutionize butt coding."

Might come off like a flippant joke, but it might give you what you're after.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210201005447/https://news.ycom...

https://hackaday.com/

You could always... vibecode your own :)

Maybe there could be an AI-generated HN mirror: the AI would monitor HN continuously, and filter out the AI related news. Fight fire with fire.

https://bubbles.town/ is fun.

This doesn't really answer your questions, especially as AI is permeating the field, but:

https://engineeringblogs.xyz/

https://lobste.rs/

maybe chaos.social mastodon server? You can follow it through relay.fedi.buzx if you can't actually join it.

Lobste.rs is very much still active, more than ever I think. They have a `vibecoding` tag that you can remove from your page, if you'd like.

comp.lang.c

I think the interesting thing is that if you look at /new, actually the community and moderation system is already holding back a fantastic volume of AI slop and “slop about AI”. It would be fair to say “HN has too much stuff about AI” and “the HN community is hostile/skeptical of AI”, in fact you hear both in the comments all the time.

Related (with some suggestions within):

We need tech news sources which exclude AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713041

Hacker News but for independent blogs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567155

Just wait a year. It will die down just like crypto and NFTs did. Hype goes in cycles.

https://hcker.news has an optional AI filter. I don't know how accurate it is.

Good luck with that. If something is easily accessible, it will be accessed by easy people, and if it can flood a platform, it will. Easy people don't care. Easy people will never care.

You might want to refine your question. The real problem is the author not having something interesting to say in their own voice. The lack of perspective and insight to share is disrespectful to the reader.

With this broader definition, you'll find there's a ton of other slop we've long since needed to clean up. It's one thing to at least share something mildly interesting, but there's still a lot of points farming and ragebait that has brought down the enjoyability of reading HN.

Try https://lobste.rs/, not completely without ai news but much better.

I've noticed myself and several colleagues have all taken to making little SaaS's for sport -- I'm not sure WHY we've all done that, but it's totally a thing.

Maybe if there was a monthly "Show us your (project/vibe/slop)" thread, it would provide a centralized spot for it all, then you could ignore it, once, at leisure, instead of the filters working overtime. :)