unslop.news
News filter
People recommend it as a Hacker News view that filters out AI-related posts, so they can read other stories. Critics say it is easy to forget to use.
People recommend it as a Hacker News view that filters out AI-related posts, so they can read other stories. Critics say it is easy to forget to use.
17 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 15
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 3 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: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 15 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 7.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not 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 AI-related posts
“classifying post title and webpage contents as AI or not and filtering out the AI stuff”
Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “How much of HN is AI?” “removes just the posts about AI, rather than all posts that mention it at all”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?” “If you look at HN through that, the above AI-related spam disappears.”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI” - Comment from 29 Aug 2026 in “Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?”
- Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI”
Used in place of Hacker News
“I browse Hacker News stories via this”
Comment from 13 Oct 2026 in “11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker” “replacing my hn bookmark.”
Comment from 24 Oct 2026 in “Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone” Shows something other than AI
“Thank you so much for this! Generally I like to read AI news, yet it's important to know what else is out there!”
Comment from 26 Aug 2026 in “How much of HN is AI?” “It’s nice to see something else.”
Comment from 13 Oct 2026 in “I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic” Seen as a good tool
“OK, this is cool, actually! Thanks!”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?” “unslop.news is a good tool”
Comment from 29 Sep 2026 in “Software occlusion culling in Block Game”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Easy to forget it exists
“it kinda works but I forget it exists”
Comment from 24 Oct 2026 in “CVE Tracker”
What people said
17 of the 22 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“replacing my hn bookmark.”
“it kinda works but I forget it exists”
“Oh that is very nice. I had been thinking about building something like that”
“Glad you're liking unslop.news”
“I browse Hacker News stories via this”
“It’s nice to see something else.”
“unslop.news is a good tool”
“unslop.news actually filters these out”
“The upvote button seems to be broken or non-functional on unslop.news.”
“If you look at HN through that, the above AI-related spam disappears.”
“If you prefer something closer to the original layout”
“OK, this is cool, actually! Thanks!”
“removes just the posts about AI, rather than all posts that mention it at all”
“Thank you for recommending this to new people!”
“has been a breeze of fresh air to avoid all the LLM news”
“Thank you so much for this! Generally I like to read AI news, yet it's important to know what else is out there!”
“classifying post title and webpage contents as AI or not and filtering out the AI stuff”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.