Ask HN: Any online tech spaces you hang around that don't involve AI?
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“I miss what HN was before Ai and LLMs started dominating everything!”
This might be your solution:
https://hn-ai.org/
This might be your solution:
https://hn-ai.org/
Better, but the very first link I'm given is "Coursera to Combine with Udemy to Empower the Global Workforce with Skills for the AI Era" ^^
I was thinking couldn't you just filter the AI stuff out. It normally seems to be less than 20% of items.
https://hn-ai.org/ features a quality index showing how much had to be filtered out.
Lobsters is the natural choice - thoughtful tech discussion with strong moderation against hype. Also worth checking: comp.lang.* Usenet groups (surprisingly active), Reddit's niche programming subreddits (r/rust, r/golang), and specialty forums like electro-tech-online.com for hardware folks.
The key difference: smaller communities attract people who are there for the craft, not engagement metrics.
The key difference: smaller communities attract people who are there for the craft, not engagement metrics.
> Also worth checking: comp.lang.* Usenet groups (surprisingly active)
Do you know of a newbie friendly FAQ on how to access usenet in the modern era?
>Reddit's niche programming subreddits (r/rust, r/golang)
Even less niche places like /r/python seem pretty open to writing code by hand. (Though I like how python has libraries for many things)
Do you know of a newbie friendly FAQ on how to access usenet in the modern era?
>Reddit's niche programming subreddits (r/rust, r/golang)
Even less niche places like /r/python seem pretty open to writing code by hand. (Though I like how python has libraries for many things)
you can't join lobste.rs without begging though.
I also think just GPTs is not a good way for everyone.Now it's like google or something like google.But I relly need great agent in my life，like a real man，not AI.
So far I've been able to keep it out of my various fediverse feeds and accounts.
Mailing lists for some of the stuff I use (Emacs, openbsd,...)
But, I just truly don’t find it interesting. For all those that do - great! But for myself, for whatever reason it just does not scratch that part of my brain. I’d rather spend days writing and debugging code (to create a 5 minute automation ;) ) than having Ai spit something out in 10 seconds.
I just use Ai like a supercharged stack overflow. Ask it something if I have a syntax error or whatever, and then move on by continuing to use my own brain to think through the logic and patterns of my project.
All that to say - I miss what HN was before Ai and LLMs started dominating everything!
Anyone have other spaces, blogs, communities, or whatever where you go to learn and/or discuss interesting things that don’t have anything to do with Ai?