Ask HN: HN with Just the Tech?
1 month ago
Howdy folks -- I find myself getting sucked into pessimistic rabbit holes when I read HN, often being drawn to the negative/scary news.
I'd love to see just tech/entrepreneurship updates without any politics/war/catastrophe updates. Does anyone currently use a tool that helps with this?
Nothing existing to my knowledge, but you could probably put together a browser extension that would feed the front page to an LLM and auto hide anything not to your interest.
Maybe take inspiration from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44172340
See https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/ and https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/ noting you could do way better if you sucked down more text and used ModernBERT + SVM.
Just finished reading both Paul, and I'm very interested to know how you implemented the reader that filters?
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Thank you so much for linking these! Exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for; still making my way through the first article but fingers crossed there's an easy-to-use implementation at the bottom.
Thanks Paul! TIL!
Thank you for the points; the second article in particular looks exactly like what I'm trying to accomplish!
lobste.rs ?
Highly curated, restricted posting, pretty much pure tech