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Show HN: Hacker News minus the slop

Hacker News users can now filter out low-quality stories with a new tool called 'Hacker News minus the slop,' an experiment by Mint Shelf that automatically hides submissions whose discussions suggest the linked content is a waste of time. The tool, which filtered two stories from the current page, aims to preserve the site's core experience while removing clickbait and misleading titles.

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Hacker News Filtered new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | Auto-Filtered: 2 Filtered from this page Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial misleading title AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph broken or inaccessible Show everything | why? Hacker News, unchanged, minus stories whose discussion suggests that clicking the link will be a waste of time. An experiment by Mint Shelf login 1. Qwen 3.8 27B ( huggingface.co ) 587 points by erdaltoprak 5 hours ago | hide | 385 comments 2. Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election ( bbc.com ) 362 points by tcp_handshaker 3 hours ago | hide | 251 comments 3. Seven books I keep close because I love them ( plover.com ) 217 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | hide | 96 comments 4. RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland ( rustdesk.com ) 134 points by rustdesk 3 hours ago | hide | 54 comments 5. Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption ( blog.google ) 143 points by u1hcw9nx 4 hours ago | hide | 95 comments 6. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? ( mun-logadan.github.io ) 588 points by numeri 9 hours ago | hide | 554 comments 7. GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities ( z.ai ) 974 points by pella 14 hours ago | hide | 487 comments 8. Introducing Toast 1 ( mixedbread.com ) 137 points by mplappert 5 hours ago | hide | 41 comments 9. How Claude's text watermarking works ( anthropic.com ) 21 points by surprisetalk 54 minutes ago | hide | 13 comments 10.

New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant
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arxiv.org ) 5 points by surprisetalk 28 minutes ago | hide | discuss 11. Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions ( claude.com ) 81 points by twapi 3 hours ago | hide | 55 comments 12. Ultraviolet Bird Photography ( uvbirds.com ) 64 points by EndXA 4 hours ago | hide | 9 comments 13. AI by Hand ( byhand.ai ) 92 points by sans_souse 4 hours ago | hide | 10 comments 14. Open WireGuard Endpoints ( proxylity.com ) 9 points by mlhpdx 1 hour ago | hide | discuss 15. Z.ai Security Disclosure ( z.ai ) 26 points by Alifatisk 48 minutes ago | hide | 3 comments 16. I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone ( heyjonny.dev ) 87 points by speckx 5 hours ago | hide | 38 comments 17. Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal ( github.com/lajosdeme ) 14 points by lajosdeme 1 hour ago | hide | 3 comments 18.

Every Fucking Website (2020)
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lxe.github.io ) 628 points by doubletwoyou 5 hours ago | hide | 363 comments 19. Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS – Pascal for Small Machines ( hansotten.com ) 31 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | hide | 7 comments 20. Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial

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19 points by matt_d 2 hours ago | hide | 8 comments 21. Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua ( ad-si.com ) 47 points by adius 3 hours ago | hide | 9 comments 22. DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update ( deepseek.com ) 228 points by fagnerbrack 10 hours ago | hide | 122 comments 23. Don't classify, hallucinate ( softwaredoug.com ) 186 points by softwaredoug 9 hours ago | hide | 78 comments 24. Forbidden City Cabbage ( cnn.com ) 35 points by dude250711 4 hours ago | hide | 4 comments 25. France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s ( reuters.com ) 157 points by BlueBerry2001 4 hours ago | hide | 97 comments 26. The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services

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106 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | hide | 76 comments 27. Show HN: AletheionAGI – Grounding enforcement for AI agents ( aletheionagi.com ) 3 points by felipemayamuniz 42 minutes ago | hide | discuss 28. In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices ( yale.edu ) 273 points by speckx 6 hours ago | hide | 205 comments 29. A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels ( arxiv.org ) 14 points by Jimmc414 3 hours ago | hide | discuss 30. AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph ( cosmograph.app ) 40 points by bj-rn 5 hours ago | hide | 6 comments More stories Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact Search:

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