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Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

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Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

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Post by antonymoose »

ksec wrote: post #114

People who are a little late to the site may not know there was a time on HN where Erlang has even more frontage submission than the best of AI / LLM. Ruby Rails, Postgres, SQLite, Rust, etc. They all have their moments and I dont think LLM right now is as overwhelming as any other hyped moments. Certainly not Erlang.

It all depends if you care about the tech side of HN or the startup side of HN. I love the tech articles above all else and could easily do without the general trend fluff.

With that said, I don’t find the AI posts nearly as bad as the Blockchain era.

Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

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Post by thm »

ksec wrote: post #114

People who are a little late to the site may not know there was a time on HN where Erlang has even more frontage submission than the best of AI / LLM. Ruby Rails, Postgres, SQLite, Rust, etc. They all have their moments and I dont think LLM right now is as overwhelming as any other hyped moments. Certainly not Erlang.

Yes, but unlike AI & Crypto, Erlang came with little grift, slop and Show HN spam.

Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

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Post by saulpw »

delusional wrote: post #85
jader201 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I just don't want to hear anything about AI ever again. Genuinely curious: Why? Don’t get me wrong, I upvoted this post, and would love to see AI separated out, or at least tagged (like a root comment suggests) so that I can filter them out if I want. But I can’t say I’d never want to hear anything about AI ever again (though I’m headed in that direction). What field are you in, and what are your interests, such th…

That is a wonderful question, but it's very hard to answer without essentially knowing me, and that may be a little bit ambitious for a comment. I'm a software engineer. I consider this some of the most important work of our generation. The hardware we've made today has unlocked an until now impossible control over the world. We don't have to mechanically devise a way to make a clock that tracks the stars. We can jus…

Thank you, I feel similarly. We've become gods of computing through global-scale invention, production, supply-chains, and finance, and we're apparently going to use that power to "improve productivity" which in the best case means cheaper apps that make people more money. I've not heard a single actual use-case for the modern AI/LLM that helps us with our actual national and global problems.

Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

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Post by tolerance »

voisin wrote: post #108
tolerance wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we're well past that stage. Using AI to escape AI. Does that count?

I think there’s another step here: Using AI to build tools that use AI to escape AI. Eventually: using AI to build tools that use AI to escape AI using tools that use AI.

> using AI to build tools that use AI to escape AI using tools that use AI

Few illustrations are so absurd yet feasible enough to depict as horrendous a reality as this.

Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

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Post by th0ma5 »

simonw wrote: post #32

I built you this: https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-filtered It shows you the Hacker News page with ai and llm stories filtered out. You can change the exclusion terms and save your changes in localStorage. o3 knocked it out for me in a couple of minutes: https://chatgpt.com/share/68766f42-1ec8-8006-8187-406ef452e0... Initial prompt was: Build a web tool that displays the Hacker News homepage (fetched from…

Perhaps you should add a privacy policy or just release the source rather than assume people will trust your site. Why do you do these demos if you aren't upfront about all the things the LLMs didn't do?

Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

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Post by azath92 »

We just built https://www.hackernews.coffee/ to rerank your frontpage based on a quick survey of your preference, all local storage based.

In general we're thinking about how you can have a transparent profile that stands in place of an opaque algo, or in this case a dominance of a community by something you're not so into. It allows you to still engage with HN, but through the lense of a profile you have control over.

Ironically it is built with AI, but its pretty straightforward no magic stuff. Keen to hear if it is useful, or could be, we're really early stages exploring where to go with it.

Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

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Post by Jugurtha »

PaulHoule wrote: post #5

This post is turning up at least every other day. The last few times my reply was "AI is 4/30 or 5/30 of the front page, it's not such a big deal", but today it is 9/30. I am wondering what the ratio is for VC and angel dealflow in the valley right now. Hanging out on the "new" page and upvoting quality non-AI articles is an effective method of resistance.

>Hanging out on the "new" page and upvoting quality non-AI articles is an effective method of resistance.

I hang out in /ask and /asknew for my part.

PS: Hey, Paul... When are you going to close my 2021 issue[0], you already merged the pull request[1] :D

Come on, man!

[0]: https://github.com/paulhoule/gastrodon/issues/10

[1]: https://github.com/paulhoule/gastrodon/pull/11

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