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HNFiltered
A Hacker News front page minus stories whose discussion suggests the link is low-quality slop or a wasted click, judged by an LLM.
Repo created 2026-08-14, last pushed 2026-09-30 (gh api); site served 2026-10-26 filtering 2 stories. (checked 2026-10-25)
In AI content filters
Where it stands apart
- How is the main thing licensed? permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) (25% of 16 others)
- Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? a general-purpose LLM API (OpenAI and compatible) (6% of 16 others)
- What does it try to remove? low-quality or time-wasting content, however it was made (13% of 16 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (94% of 16 others)
- How is it mainly sustained? individual side project, no revenue (50% of 16 others)
- Do you need an account to use it? no account (50% of 16 others)
- How does it mainly decide what to flag? an AI model or classifier (50% of 16 others)
- Once you start using it, is filtering or labeling on by default? yes, on by default (69% of 16 others)
- In the default setup, how do users mainly pay for it? free, no paid option (56% of 16 others)
- Does it publish its verdicts for others to reuse (a list, dataset, feed, or API)? no (69% of 16 others)
Nearest neighbors
- unslop.news 94% of 17 shared answers match
- Hacker News AI Detector (Salah Adawi) 65% of 17 shared answers match
- hnslop 59% of 17 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | stands apart permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) 'MIT, with an optional beerware note.' | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | individual side project, no revenue 'An experiment by Mint Shelf' (a marketplace company); Show HN author describes it as a vibe-coded side project. Judgment call. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | yes Deploy your own Cloudflare Worker with your own OpenAI key. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | no account | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | both | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | stands apart a general-purpose LLM API (OpenAI and compatible) gpt-5.6-luna reads stories and comments. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What does it try to remove? | stands apart low-quality or time-wasting content, however it was made 'low-quality slop or a wasted click'. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How does it mainly decide what to flag? | an AI model or classifier gpt-5.6-luna reads top 90 stories plus top comments every five minutes. | source 2026-10-26 |
| In the default setup, where is each item judged? | on the maker's server Scheduled Cloudflare Worker job. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What happens to flagged content by default? | removed or hidden Has a 'show unfiltered' link. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which place does it mainly cover? | Hacker News | source 2026-10-26 |
| What form does it take? | an alternative website or reader app | source 2026-10-26 |
| Once you start using it, is filtering or labeling on by default? | yes, on by default | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can you correct a wrong verdict? | no Only 'show unfiltered' for the whole page. | source 2026-10-26 |
| In the default setup, how do users mainly pay for it? | free, no paid option | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it publish its verdicts for others to reuse (a list, dataset, feed, or API)? | no | source 2026-10-26 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- GitHub · github.com/mintshelf/hnfiltered.com · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · hnfiltered.com/ · collected 2026-10-26
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