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Hacker News sans AI

A developer launched HNSansAI, a version of Hacker News that filters out AI-related content by scanning articles for AI terms using the official Hacker News API, aiming to provide a non-AI-focused news experience.

read1 min views15 publishedJun 2, 2026

I like Hacker News, but I do not love that so much of it has turned into discussion of a single topic: AI. So, I have created my own version. A version of Hacker News, without AI.

HNSansAI pulls from the official Hacker News API, looks through the content of each article, and discards any that mention a term related to "AI". That includes stuff like:

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