{"slug": "show-hn-hacker-news-minus-the-slop", "title": "Show HN: Hacker News minus the slop", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "Hacker News\nFiltered\nnew\n|\npast\n|\ncomments\n|\nask\n|\nshow\n|\njobs\n|\nsubmit\n|\nAuto-Filtered: 2\nFiltered from this page\nMoving integer division to floating-point is trivial\nmisleading title\nAI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph\nbroken or inaccessible\nShow everything\n|\nwhy?\nHacker News, unchanged, minus stories whose discussion suggests that clicking the link will be a waste of time.\nAn experiment by\nMint Shelf\nlogin\n1.\nQwen 3.8 27B\n(\nhuggingface.co\n)\n587 points\nby\nerdaltoprak\n5 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n385 comments\n2.\nCount Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election\n(\nbbc.com\n)\n362 points\nby\ntcp_handshaker\n3 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n251 comments\n3.\nSeven books I keep close because I love them\n(\nplover.com\n)\n217 points\nby\nsurprisetalk\n5 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n96 comments\n4.\nRustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland\n(\nrustdesk.com\n)\n134 points\nby\nrustdesk\n3 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n54 comments\n5.\nGoogle is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption\n(\nblog.google\n)\n143 points\nby\nu1hcw9nx\n4 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n95 comments\n6.\nWhy does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?\n(\nmun-logadan.github.io\n)\n588 points\nby\nnumeri\n9 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n554 comments\n7.\nGLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities\n(\nz.ai\n)\n974 points\nby\npella\n14 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n487 comments\n8.\nIntroducing Toast 1\n(\nmixedbread.com\n)\n137 points\nby\nmplappert\n5 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n41 comments\n9.\nHow Claude's text watermarking works\n(\nanthropic.com\n)\n21 points\nby\nsurprisetalk\n54 minutes ago\n|\nhide\n|\n13 comments\n10.\nNew Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant\n(\narxiv.org\n)\n5 points\nby\nsurprisetalk\n28 minutes ago\n|\nhide\n|\ndiscuss\n11.\nMaximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions\n(\nclaude.com\n)\n81 points\nby\ntwapi\n3 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n55 comments\n12.\nUltraviolet Bird Photography\n(\nuvbirds.com\n)\n64 points\nby\nEndXA\n4 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n9 comments\n13.\nAI by Hand\n(\nbyhand.ai\n)\n92 points\nby\nsans_souse\n4 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n10 comments\n14.\nOpen WireGuard Endpoints\n(\nproxylity.com\n)\n9 points\nby\nmlhpdx\n1 hour ago\n|\nhide\n|\ndiscuss\n15.\nZ.ai Security Disclosure\n(\nz.ai\n)\n26 points\nby\nAlifatisk\n48 minutes ago\n|\nhide\n|\n3 comments\n16.\nI turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone\n(\nheyjonny.dev\n)\n87 points\nby\nspeckx\n5 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n38 comments\n17.\nShow HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal\n(\ngithub.com/lajosdeme\n)\n14 points\nby\nlajosdeme\n1 hour ago\n|\nhide\n|\n3 comments\n18.\nEvery Fucking Website (2020)\n(\nlxe.github.io\n)\n628 points\nby\ndoubletwoyou\n5 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n363 comments\n19.\nTurbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS – Pascal for Small Machines\n(\nhansotten.com\n)\n31 points\nby\nrbanffy\n4 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n7 comments\n20.\nMoving integer division to floating-point is trivial\n(\nmarc-b-reynolds.github.io\n)\n19 points\nby\nmatt_d\n2 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n8 comments\n21.\nShow HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua\n(\nad-si.com\n)\n47 points\nby\nadius\n3 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n9 comments\n22.\nDeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update\n(\ndeepseek.com\n)\n228 points\nby\nfagnerbrack\n10 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n122 comments\n23.\nDon't classify, hallucinate\n(\nsoftwaredoug.com\n)\n186 points\nby\nsoftwaredoug\n9 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n78 comments\n24.\nForbidden City Cabbage\n(\ncnn.com\n)\n35 points\nby\ndude250711\n4 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n4 comments\n25.\nFrance's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s\n(\nreuters.com\n)\n157 points\nby\nBlueBerry2001\n4 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n97 comments\n26.\nThe TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services\n(\nxn--gckvb8fzb.com\n)\n106 points\nby\nsurprisetalk\n8 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n76 comments\n27.\nShow HN: AletheionAGI – Grounding enforcement for AI agents\n(\naletheionagi.com\n)\n3 points\nby\nfelipemayamuniz\n42 minutes ago\n|\nhide\n|\ndiscuss\n28.\nIn Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices\n(\nyale.edu\n)\n273 points\nby\nspeckx\n6 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n205 comments\n29.\nA Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels\n(\narxiv.org\n)\n14 points\nby\nJimmc414\n3 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\ndiscuss\n30.\nAI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph\n(\ncosmograph.app\n)\n40 points\nby\nbj-rn\n5 hours ago\n|\nhide\n|\n6 comments\nMore stories\nGuidelines\n|\nFAQ\n|\nLists\n|\nAPI\n|\nSecurity\n|\nLegal\n|\nApply to YC\n|\nContact\nSearch:", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-hacker-news-minus-the-slop", 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