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Ask HN: Any online tech spaces you hang around that don't involve AI?
“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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Better, but the very first link I'm given is "Coursera to Combine with Udemy to Empower the Global Workforce with Skills for the AI Era" ^^
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I was thinking couldn't you just filter the AI stuff out. It normally seems to be less than 20% of items.
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https://hn-ai.org/ features a quality index showing how much had to be filtered out.
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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.

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> Also worth checking: comp.lang.* Usenet groups (surprisingly active)

Do you know of a newbie friendly FAQ on how to access usenet in the modern era?

>Reddit's niche programming subreddits (r/rust, r/golang)

Even less niche places like /r/python seem pretty open to writing code by hand. (Though I like how python has libraries for many things)

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you can't join lobste.rs without begging though.
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I also think just GPTs is not a good way for everyone.Now it's like google or something like google.But I relly need great agent in my life,like a real man,not AI.
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So far I've been able to keep it out of my various fediverse feeds and accounts.
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Mailing lists for some of the stuff I use (Emacs, openbsd,...)
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