'Ask HN: Can We Please Limit the AI News Flood?' Hits 795 Points and Four HN AI-Filters Ship in a Day
User cromka posted the ask on September 11, 2026 and it reached 795 points and 373 comments within 23 hours, arguing HN's feed is now almost exclusively AI or AI-adjacent and citing non-AI submissions that got no traction. The thread doubles as a measurement: unslop.news, one of several filters built in response, reported 88 of 179 submissions surviving its AI filter, about 49%, with its creator noting days approaching 75%. Four separate filtering tools appeared on the front page in the same window — unslop.news (186pts), hcker.news (191pts), a reduced-priority HN reader (120pts) and a browser extension — while commenters countered that moderators already run a 'second chance pool' and that previous hype cycles faded without intervention.
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