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- Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content
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Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
I have found that the https://lobste.rs/ submission policy means that there is a lot less slop (and discussion of slop) over there. They focus more heavily on technical discussions, which I find more rewarding.
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Ask HN: Where do you get your AI (technology) news?
I think you could keep up with more than you bargained for with:
1) Hacker News, obv
2) https://lobste.rs/
3) x.com -> "AI" Topic
4) https://github.com/trending
- Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
- Lobster Is Migrating to SQLite
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Grok 4.5
Hacker News sadly jumped the shark in the mid-2010s, and went into orbit after Trump was elected the first time. Since then there's been a lot of political performers here, which has killed the quality of discussion significantly. Lobsters (https://lobste.rs/) is apparently a possible alternative, but the original HN magic has been gone a long time.
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Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking?
This doesn't really answer your questions, especially as AI is permeating the field, but:
https://engineeringblogs.xyz/
https://lobste.rs/
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Lobsters Bug Allows Unauthorized Email Access
No. The poster didn't communicate the bug per the posted instructions at https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/main/SECURITY.md ; the poster actually exploited the flaw to scrape personal data of users which xe then threatened to post; and the company being promoted was nothing to do with Hacker News at all, but was a company that sells software security stuff, with which which two lobste.rs accounts were connected.
- A website that lists websites to submit your website to
- Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?
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A note from our sponsor - Kargo
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lobsters/lobsters is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
Lobsters is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Lobsters is Ruby.
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