Hacker News, without AI
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 4 of 11 hacker news clients by recommenders
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.
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.
22 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 16
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 73%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 16 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Filters out most AI stories
“This is the first attempt I've seen that seems to be working.”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI” “it does work for most/many AI stories. Good enough!”
Comment from 6 Jun 2026 in “Hacker News, Sans AI” “This is a solved problem.”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?” Restores the Hacker News feel
“Finally the hacker news I originally came for”
Comment from 3 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: Hacker News without AI stories” “It increases my enjoyment of HN by 100%.”
Comment from 15 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: HN Without AI Stories” Serif font and preset filter
“being able to set a serif font instead of whatever default is on”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI” “particularly that the filter is just a preset!”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Hacker News, without AI”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Comments or pages fail to load
“It looks nice but I can't load any comments”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Hacker News, without AI” “Would have been much better if it simply rendered a blank page.”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Hacker News, without AI”
Other hacker news clients people recommend
The four most recommended other hacker news clients, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker News client for macOS | 26 | 5 | 84% | 1 | — | — |
| hcker.news | 18 | 4 | 82% | 10 | — | Approved |
| hckrnews.com | 18 | 0 | 100% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Hacker News, without AIThis page | 16 | 6 | 73% | 5 | — | Approved |
| The Front Page | 16 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | Approved |
What people said
20 of the 24 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it's open source so feel free to open a ticket”
“It looks nice but I can't load any comments”
“I like the idea, but have a couple problems: It filters out things that are clearly not AI related”
“Would have been much better if it simply rendered a blank page.”
“We do get the the pinnicle of software quality though: parsing HTML with regex.”
“I love this so much because I hide every”
“links at the top e.g. show redirect to the regular site”
“this version of HN surfaces really interesting articles I've missed”
“It is espically god for AI researchers like me”
“Two with the same title. This is spam.”
“This is the first attempt I've seen that seems to be working.”
“being able to set a serif font instead of whatever default is on”
“Nice. The word "show" threw me off, given it is on the far right and the cog is on the far left.”
“particularly that the filter is just a preset!”
“This is a solved problem.”
“It increases my enjoyment of HN by 100%.”
“Your site works with my Firefox auto-pager, which is really nice for archiving posts for later search.”
“Finally the hacker news I originally came for”
“it does work for most/many AI stories. Good enough!”
“I've built an extension for TamperMonkey for this exact purpose”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.