# Hacker News, without AI

16 Hacker News commenters recommended Hacker News, without AI and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Hides AI stories from Hacker News, which people say works well for most AI posts and surfaces articles they had missed. Caveat: it sometimes hides posts that are not about AI.

## Why people recommend it

- Filters out most AI stories (3 comments): "This is the first attempt I've seen that seems to be working." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662141)) "it does work for most/many AI stories. Good enough!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48422238)) "This is a solved problem." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659481))
- Restores the Hacker News feel (2 comments): "Finally the hacker news I originally came for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160448)) "It increases my enjoyment of HN by 100%." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308842))
- Serif font and preset filter (2 comments): "being able to set a serif font instead of whatever default is on" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662068)) "particularly that the filter is just a preset!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661143))

## What people warn about

- Comments or pages fail to load (2 comments): "It looks nice but I can't load any comments" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665661)) "Would have been much better if it simply rendered a blank page." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665080))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Hacker News client for macOS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/native-macos-hacker-news-client.md): 26 recommend
- [hcker.news](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hcker-news.md): 18 recommend
- [hckrnews.com](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hckrnews-com.md): 18 recommend
- [The Front Page](https://hackerapproved.com/p/front-page.md): 16 recommend
- [Harmonic Hacker News app](https://hackerapproved.com/p/harmonic.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Hacker News, without AI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/hacker-news-without-ai/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).