sammy0910

i dont think this was the cause of the slowdown, it was just sort of the thing that led to the discovery that this was mostly bots.

in general, because the purpose of the website is to allow users to generate news feeds based on custom criteria, it does do a bit of meaningful work on each request (ones that do follow through and load the full page).

> How many was it? > Also interesting that it was a single "user". (user-agent?) Did it come from a different IP every time?

I'm intentionally leaving some of the details vague here, both because I don't want to be too harsh on the original author (it may have just been accidental/a buggy program/etc.), and because I don't want the traffic generators to know how im flagging them.

despite everything, I think there are people out there who care a lot, and who are doing good work, and I'm hopeful that if we care enough we can sort of redirect this wave into something good for the world

There’s this post from a few weeks ago, if you just wanna filter out all the AI content

running live w/ability to set custom tags if you're interested

This is configurable though, so you can make it whatever you want.

see below for a complete demo (view on desktop): https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews

as well as another example I've exported from above with stronger penalty: https://sprinklz.io/public/5vsn97zcgxex

you can also visit the main homepage at https://sprinklz.io if you want to build/save/export arbitrary feeds

here is the demo (best viewed on desktop): https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews

as well as the main site: https://sprinklz.io

where you can build and save arbitrary feeds.

https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews

here is a more detailed demo link (best viewed on desktop).

you can also visit the homepage at https://sprinklz.io if you want a more permanent account where you can create and save custom feeds

see (view on desktop)

https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews

for a more detailed example

thanks for the your thoughts, and i will also keep working on making it faster.

This is also a general purpose tool that you can modify/customize

https://sprinklz.io/public/pdwt4dve5uai

which additionally lets you add and modify custom filters

https://sprinklz.io/public/pdwt4dve5uai

this is what I use to keep the garbage out

yes. I want to know how much thought and effort was put into it.

it is part of a much larger project than just this page (https://sprinklz.io), which I have been working on, on and off, for almost 4 years.

unfortunately there isn't a dashboard yet in the logged out view, but if you view the feed when logged into sprinklz you can directly see (and edit) all the params used

I wanted to make this general purpose enough that it could handle large datasets (e.g. i want to do thiings like https://sprinklz.io/demo/headlineNews), so I was hesitant to do things like make 1-LLM-call-per-article, but I'll keep exploring ways to make it better

unfortunately there isn't a dashboard yet in the logged out view, but if you view the feed when logged into sprinklz you can directly see (and edit) all the params used

I also want to make the 'Demos' text better, but I'm still working out exactly what it should say. Unfortunately if I remove '(click a box below)', people don't know they can click on it lol.

I'm thinking maybe "Try It Live (click a box below)" or maybe "Demos (click a box to try it first)", but idk its hard to get it right without adding visual noise. I agree though, and want to make it better.