<h1>Hacker News, sans AI</h1>
I like Hacker News, but I do not love that so much of it has turned into dis­cus­sion of a sin­gle topic: AI. So, I have cre­ated my own ver­sion.
A ver­sion of Hacker News, with­out AI.
<a href="/hnsansai">HNSansAI</a> pulls from the of­ﬁ­cial Hacker News API, looks through the con­tent of each ar­ti­cle, and dis­cards any that men­tion a term re­lated to “AI”. That in­cludes stuff like:
<ul>
<li>“OpenAI”</li>
<li>“Anthropic”</li>
<li>“Copilot”</li>
<li>“LLM”</li>
<li>…and many more.</li>
</ul>

I like HackerNews, but I don't love that so much of it has turned into discussion of a single topic: AI. This is a version of HackerNews, filtered to remove any article focusing on __AI__. Refreshes about every ten minutes.

I like HackerNews, but I don’t love that so much of it has turned into dis­cus­sion of a sin­gle topic: AI. This is a ver­sion of HackerNews, ﬁl­tered to re­move any ar­ti­cle fo­cus­ing on AI. Refreshes about every ten min­utes.

Hacker News sans AI

Back in my day, we used math for autocomplete.

Back in my day, we used math for au­to­com­plete.

Markov Chains Are the Original Language Models

It didn't work for me, and if you reading this, it probably won't work for you either.

It did­n’t work for me, and if you read­ing this, it prob­a­bly won’t work for you ei­ther.

Do Not Type Your Notes

<h1>Trying out the Helium Browser</h1>
<img src="/images/helium_website.png" alt="The Helium Website">
I’ve de­cided to give the <a href="https://helium.computer/">Helium browser</a> a shot.
So far, I’m im­pressed!
For con­text, I’ve been an <code>ungoogled-chromium</code> user for the past 4-ish years.
Why? I like the pri­vacy guar­an­tees. Plus, I pre­fer to use the same browser en­gine as <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/private-grammar-checker-h/lodbfhdipoipcjmlebjbgmmgekckhpfb">my users</a>.
When I heard about Helium, I was in­trigued.
From what I can tell, it’s es­sen­tially a fork of <code>ungoogled-chromium</code>, with some bonus perks.
It ships UBlock Origin out-of-the-box, which means I can keep us­ing the same great ad blocker that Google re­cently killed in its browser.
It looks great, and mi­grat­ing from Chromium was su­per easy.

I've decided to give the Helium browser a shot. So far, I'm impressed!

I’ve de­cided to give the Helium browser a shot. So far, I’m im­pressed!

Elijah Potter

Trying out the Helium Browser

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