I feel awesome about it!
IMO this would be like in 1997 (or pick whatever year you think the Internet took off) asking, "How do you feel about posts about the Internet taking over the HN front page?"
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Re: Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?
#12I was thinking of making an alternative frontend to HN with GenAI stuff filtered out — using GenAI to do it, obviously (both build it and use it to filter things). But mostly as a social experiment to test how fed up are people with AI-in-our-face ;) This is what my sentiment is: there is genuinely useful stuff, but it really overwhelmes anything else and it's hard to find non-AI valuable stuff on the frontpage these…
I do apprehend this kind of ideas. It would make it easier for models to be trained to bypass that filter, making it even harder for humans to detect slop.
This is not about detecting AI generated content but detecting HN posts which mention/discuss AI.
Re: Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?
#13HN is mostly dead to me. The site was billed as a place for curious minds, but there is little curiosity in letting a machine do your thinking.
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#14It is kind of annoying but to be fair, developing software with agents is a big paradigm shift in the field so its not surprising.
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#15If a discussion about GenAI adds something new to the discussion, I think it is great. But most of them do not. Most of them are either generic posts about whether or not someone likes it, stories of someone's experiences as they learn it, or fanfiction about where they want it to go in the future. Or, at the worst, links to simplistic wrapper apps someone is trying to market. I would prefer that it lands in the same…
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Re: Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?
#16HN is mostly dead to me. The site was billed as a place for curious minds, but there is little curiosity in letting a machine do your thinking.
Honestly, same. I spend most of my time on Lobste.rs, private blogs, and chat communities rather than HN for this reason. I check in every so often out of habit and can catch some business news here or there...but the joy, growth, and curiosity have moved to smaller bastions specifically to avoid the slop and its glorification.
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#17It's a phase. There have been different phases in the past. This too shall pass.
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#18I feel awesome about it! IMO this would be like in 1997 (or pick whatever year you think the Internet took off) asking, "How do you feel about posts about the Internet taking over the HN front page?"
Exactly.
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#19Not a huge fan of it, but I'm not really a huge fan of any one topic dominating Hacker News.
For a while that was crypto, now it seems to be AI.
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#20I find it weird that the same set that gatekept me from CS in the twenty aughts because I wasn't a hardcore C coder and quant now can't even write so much as a bash script while feeling entitled to pontificate.
My code is shit but it's MINE