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Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out
4 hours ago
- hcker.news is a better Hacker News reader with advanced search and filtering options.
- Users can search stories and comments by title, URL, text, author, and more.
- Sorting options include popular and recent, and time filters from 24h to year.
- Example search queries provided: sqlite, rust, distributed systems, etc.
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The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
7 days ago
- Simon Willison ranked #1 for the third year, writing about AI as a power user without sales bias, and publishing over 1,000 posts in 2025.
- Jeff Geerling achieved #2 by pairing YouTube content with thoughtful blog posts tailored to text, unlike many YouTubers.
- Sean Goedecke rose to #3 by writing prolifically (140 posts) about big tech politics, with many posts needing multiple submissions to gain traction.
- Brian Krebs maintained #4 as a top cybersecurity journalist, but his political story was flagged and moderated off the front page.
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What I've Learned from Hacker News
7 days ago
- Hacker News started as a side project to test a new programming language and for Y Combinator founders, but grew faster than expected.
- Growth is a concern: the site aims to grow slowly to preserve its character and avoid scaling issues, unlike Digg or Reddit.
- Dilution is tackled by focusing on behavior rather than users, applying the broken windows theory to discourage bad behavior.
- The Fluff Principle explains that easy-to-judge links dominate unless prevented; HN uses banning off-topic content and editing titles.
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How much of HN is AI?
7 days ago
- As of June 2026, approximately 50% of Hacker News daily top stories are about AI or generated by AI.
- The author conducted a systematic survey in February and June 2026, finding AI-related content rose from 40% to 50% of top stories.
- AI topics dominate nearly daily lineups, with some days having 4 out of 5 top stories about AI, including vendor announcements and op-eds.
- Detection tool Pangram was used to identify AI-written stories; findings suggest many top stories are AI-generated, with some false negatives.
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7 days ago
- A student used cosine similarity on top word frequencies to detect similar or fake Hacker News accounts.
- The author replicated this method using Redis Vector Sets and the Burrows-Delta technique.
- Data preprocessing involved downloading HN comments, converting Parquet files to JSONL with user word frequency tables.
- The Burrows-Delta method computes relative frequency, then z-scores using global mean and standard deviation for each word.
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A Great Deal of Information About Hacker News
11 days ago
- Hacker News is a news aggregator and forum created by Y Combinator, launched in 2007 as 'Startup News' and rebranded to focus on hacker topics.
- The site uses custom jargon like upvote, karma, hug of death, and shadowban, with specific voting rules (e.g., downvoting requires 500 karma).
- Posts can be link or text (Ask HN, Show HN, Tell HN), have an 80-character title limit, and can be edited within two hours.
- Ranking is based on points, time decay, and penalties for text-only posts; the algorithm has evolved to prevent gaming.
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Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links
12 days ago
- A collection of 1,169 Hall of Fame links and 1,994 Candidates from Hacker News.
- Notable entries include 'We can't send email more than 500 miles' (1164 peak points), 'Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years' (586 points), 'Cool URIs Don't Change' (387 points), and 'What You Can't Say' (241 points).
- Newest Hall of Fame class (June 2026) features 5 links, including 'The Birth and Death of JavaScript' (635 max points), 'Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things' (272 points), and 'Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust?' (276 points).
- Hall induction requires 5+ submissions, 3+ distinct submitters, 3+ active years, and 2 qualifying breakout events from different submitters at least 720 days apart.
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What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles?
19 days ago
- The most popular number in Hacker News titles is initially found to be 2 using a naive regex query on the HN dataset, which counts digit sequences regardless of context.
- A smarter regex pattern that captures whole comma-grouped numbers, treats decimals as single tokens, and filters years reveals that 1 becomes the most popular number, followed by 2 and 3.
- Small numbers dominate due to three main reasons: listicles (e.g., '3 ways to do X'), version numbers (e.g., software releases like Rust 1.0), and round numbers used as thresholds or rankings (e.g., 'Top 10').
- External events affect number popularity, such as '19' spiking in 2020 due to COVID-19 and '4' jumping in 2023 because of GPT-4's launch.
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Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client
a month ago
- The app offers a refined Hacker News experience with familiar features and thoughtful improvements for immersive conversation.
- Users can filter content by categories like Top, New, Best, Ask, Show, or Jobs, and easily scroll, upvote, favorite, and organize into personal collections.
- It provides a clean, uninterrupted reading experience with local comments for speed and smart collapsible threads to keep discussions tidy.
- The app supports adding comments and replies through organized, collapsible threads designed for smooth, clutter-free conversations.
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Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025

What I've Learned from Hacker News

How much of HN is AI?

<antirez>

A Great Deal of Information About Hacker News

Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links

What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles?

Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client