unslop.news Rebuilds the Hacker News Front Page With the AI Stories Stripped Out

A new Show HN project called “Hacker News, Without AI” (unslop.news) offers a filtered version of the Hacker News feed that removes stories about AI. The pitch speaks to a growing fatigue among technical readers: as AI announcements, model releases, and LLM think-pieces have come to saturate tech aggregators, the site curates the feed back down to everything else that the community is actually reading and discussing.

The filtered front page shows what that everything-else looks like — and it’s broad. Systems and infrastructure lead (petabyte-scale ClickHouse operations, sharded Postgres via PlanetScale’s Neki, swap-file advice), alongside languages and tooling (Rust becoming a tier-1 language at Microsoft, a JDK ahead-of-time compilation JEP, mold’s Rust rewrite), security- and platform-relevant items (a browser trick that can freeze a Mac, keychain-migration failures on Secure Enclave Macs under Tahoe, Wikipedia’s NSA Room 641A), plus the usual mix of science, hardware, and culture. Corporate and policy stories surface too, from Shopify’s acquisition of Tailwind to the ongoing Automattic boardroom drama around Matt Mullenweg.

The significance is less technical than editorial. The project is essentially a commentary on discovery and signal-to-noise: rather than building yet another AI product, it argues that a useful feature right now is subtraction — giving readers a way to opt out of the dominant topic and see the rest of the field clearly. It’s a small but pointed data point on how much of the current tech conversation is AI, and how many people would rather it weren’t.