We need tech news sources which exclude AI

A fresh little rebellion is brewing in tech-land: readers are begging for a way to read about literally anything without being dragged back into artificial intelligence. The complaint is simple and spicy: every site, every feed, every conversation now seems to turn into AI hype, AI marketing, AI prices, or people claiming their robot helper built something "AMAZING" that secretly doesn’t even work. The mood? Exhausted, annoyed, and just a little bit theatrical.

And the comments absolutely ran with it. Some people showed up with survival tools, posting links like HN sans AI and hcker.news with AI excluded, basically saying, "Don’t panic, we have escape routes." Others were less hopeful. One commenter said AI is now so tangled up with the internet that avoiding it is almost impossible, which is the ultimate buzzkill take in a thread full of people trying to flee the noise.

The strongest hot take came from users who said the real problem isn’t even the tech — it’s the sales pitch swallowing every conversation. Another commenter nailed the vibe with a cosmic metaphor: AI is "absorbing all of the oxygen" from every topic, so even stories about computer chips, cloud costs, or fun side projects somehow become AI discourse. It’s dramatic, yes, but also wildly relatable. The joke underneath all of this? Tech readers aren’t asking for the future to stop — they just want one news page where a toaster can be a toaster and not an AI toaster.