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Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking?

A user expresses frustration with the prevalence of AI and LLM-related content on Hacker News, seeking instead a community focused on human-centric hacking and "human-in-the-loop" articles. They ask for alternative website recommendations, mentioning lobste.rs as a potential but uncertain option.

Background

- Hacker News (HN) is a massively popular tech-news aggregator run by the startup accelerator Y Combinator, where users submit and vote on links. Its front page culture has historically celebrated low-level hacking, startups, and programming craft. - The "Ask HN" post reflects a growing fatigue among some longtime readers: HN's front page now regularly features stories about AI agents, LLM benchmarks, and corporate news from OpenAI/Anthropic, which some feel crowds out other kinds of hacking (hardware, systems, security, DIY, programming esoterica). - Lobste.rs is a smaller, invite-like community-run aggregator built by a programmer named Joshua Stein. It never reached HN's scale; it had a reputation for more focused tech discussion but also for being cliquey and slow to adopt new users. The asker is unsure if it's still active or worth switching to. - The complaint is a recurring tension in tech communities: as a platform gets bigger, its content gravitates toward whichever trending topic generates the most upvotes — currently AI — at the expense of the niche that originally drew users there.

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Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking?

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