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Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?

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Post by linotype »

minimaxir wrote: post #9
linotype wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That creates a ton of traffic to LLMs for the same summary. Why not have one person do it and post it?

If there were a actual demand for that, Y Combinator could implement something similar to Google AI Overview that automatically summarizes each post, which would strongly discourages people from actually reading the articles and giving thoughtful insights.

That would be the idea of the static page. Save people time from reading an article they aren’t actually interested in.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?

#12

Post by minimaxir »

linotype wrote: post #8
minimaxir wrote: post #5

The main reason your comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160084 ) got downvoted was because you gave a summary without disclosing it's AI-generated , which made other users upset. But even if you did disclose, it's still against HN rules, as other people in that thread told you. You commented "they’re free to delete it. I think it adds value", but as you've seen the community disagrees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Not according to the guidelines and the upvotes the comment received.

The guidelines are out of date and they don't mention anything for or against AI comments. Having your comment flagged makes the number of upvotes irrelevant.

The search thread you were linked to (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) are comments from dang, the head moderator of HN. His word is the law.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?

#13

Post by linotype »

minimaxir wrote: post #12
linotype wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Not according to the guidelines and the upvotes the comment received.

The guidelines are out of date and they don't mention anything for or against AI comments. Having your comment flagged makes the number of upvotes irrelevant. The search thread you were linked to ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ) are comments from dang, the head moderator of HN. His word is the law.

> His word is the law.

Well now that sounds dystopian.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?

#14

Post by minimaxir »

linotype wrote: post #13
minimaxir wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The guidelines are out of date and they don't mention anything for or against AI comments. Having your comment flagged makes the number of upvotes irrelevant. The search thread you were linked to ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ) are comments from dang, the head moderator of HN. His word is the law.

> His word is the law. Well now that sounds dystopian.

All high-quality internet forums require good/strict moderation.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?

#15

Post by minimaxir »

linotype wrote: post #11
minimaxir wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If there were a actual demand for that, Y Combinator could implement something similar to Google AI Overview that automatically summarizes each post, which would strongly discourages people from actually reading the articles and giving thoughtful insights.

That would be the idea of the static page. Save people time from reading an article they aren’t actually interested in.

People can already do that from the submission headline.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?

#16

Post by 3np »

linotype wrote: post #11
minimaxir wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If there were a actual demand for that, Y Combinator could implement something similar to Google AI Overview that automatically summarizes each post, which would strongly discourages people from actually reading the articles and giving thoughtful insights.

That would be the idea of the static page. Save people time from reading an article they aren’t actually interested in.

It does sound like making your site and going wild there is a better approach than contaminating HN threads with LLM-generated comments.

While it will probably be appreciated as a "Show HN", please refrain from spamming links to it in threads here.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?

#17

Post by linotype »

minimaxir wrote: post #14
linotype wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> His word is the law. Well now that sounds dystopian.

All high-quality internet forums require good/strict moderation.

Where you apparently have to search for the text from one person to see if speech is allowed or not.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?

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Post by linotype »

minimaxir wrote: post #15
linotype wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be the idea of the static page. Save people time from reading an article they aren’t actually interested in.

People can already do that from the submission headline.

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Re: Ask HN: Is there a desire for an AI summary friendly version of Hacker News?

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Post by minimaxir »

linotype wrote: post #18
minimaxir wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People can already do that from the submission headline.

[flagged]

Instead of low-effort ad hominems, which are also against the HN guidelines, you should read the blog posts. One of my recent posts which was highly upvoted on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897320) demonstrates how I don't actually use LLMs all that much for my writing and only use them for specific use cases where they objectively add value, including my work at BuzzFeed.
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