The closest to "HN lite" is probably lobste.rs. There's a fair amount of overlap, but it's closer to 20% AI than 80% AI.
Reddit? General-interest subreddits such as /r/technology are mostly mainstream news, but there's plenty of specialized ones, such as /r/math, /r/programming, /r/c_programming, /r/rust, etc. Most of these have relatively little AI, some explicitly contain all AI content to weekly threads.
Many of the aggregators "killed" by HN are still alive, just not as popular. For example, boingboing.net is up and running. Also, places like Ars Technica have RSS feeds, so it's easy to construct your own, you just lose the social aspect.
The closest to "HN lite" is probably lobste.rs. There's a fair amount of overlap, but it's closer to 20% AI than 80% AI.
Reddit? General-interest subreddits such as /r/technology are mostly mainstream news, but there's plenty of specialized ones, such as /r/math, /r/programming, /r/c_programming, /r/rust, etc. Most of these have relatively little AI, some explicitly contain all AI content to weekly threads.
Many of the aggregators "killed" by HN are still alive, just not as popular. For example, boingboing.net is up and running. Also, places like Ars Technica have RSS feeds, so it's easy to construct your own, you just lose the social aspect.