Ask HN: Any online tech spaces you hang around that don't involve AI?

I understand why Ai is dominating online discourse right now. The tech is novel, it’s pushing boundaries, the business side has trillions of dollars involved, and it’s made its way to the mainstream of every day people.

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?

6 points | by jc_811 18 hours ago

4 comments

  • rokoss21 10 hours ago
    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.

  • skydhash 15 hours ago
    Mailing lists for some of the stuff I use (Emacs, openbsd,...)
  • krapp 13 hours ago
    So far I've been able to keep it out of my various fediverse feeds and accounts.
  • leephillips 16 hours ago
    “I miss what HN was before Ai and LLMs started dominating everything!”

    This might be your solution:

    https://hn-ai.org/

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    • tim333 8 hours ago
      I was thinking couldn't you just filter the AI stuff out. It normally seems to be less than 20% of items.