It's the biggest 'thing' in the industry. Previously this site was swamped with Blockchain news...
You think that would have been some kind of lesson, but no!
Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
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#152At least the frontpage is no longer filled with Ruby and Ruby on Rails projects anymore :) These things tend to improve/get worse by themselves over time, if it's not AI, it'll be something else, until the industry moves on. Right now, seems we're still "discovering" new things around AI, so the submissions will surely continue, and interested parties will continue to upvote. But AI will have its eventually Ruby/RoR…
The Erlang front page was nice, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11
For reference, the glut of Erlang posts was due to pg posting "Why HN is slow lately": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
> it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang than women who create sites to get hired by Twitter
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is so refreshing. Almost everything in top/new/best is an interesting read. Either I don't know anything about the topic ("...the spanning tree protocol") or am seriously interested in the topic ("Remembering Hong Kong", "Automattic's board forces CEO..."). None of these made to frontpage over the last two days AFAIK.
They're all on the front page, just buried between all the AI stuff
Which kind of makes my point: these pages filter AI stuff, but do not make room for non-AI stuff.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lenovo is just vaporware currently as was their laptop with translucent display. YMMV but I no longer waste my time with things that are not available (and may never be). The Lenovo page that is linked from the page you posted is super light on details and just fluffy marketing. Doing some research on "AirJet solid-state cooling" turns up products that have been announced at CES 2023. More info may be found at the Fr…
> never runs the fan (does it have one, I don't know) > so the Airjet thing (for me) is pretty much a solution in search of a problem. That's it? Fan is about noise and nothing else? The much lower volume/dissipation and weight/dissipation ratios, which made this Lenovo latop 830g, which easily allows for some 200-300g of extra battery is a solution in search of a problem? Sorry, if you don't see this then we have no…
We get it, your interests aren't the same as others. The problem here is you want your vote to count more than others because your interests are super important and everything, but that's not how upvote based sites on general tech topics work.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#155HN already has an upvote/downvote system to surface what's interesting to people here.
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#156Brute force being the antithesis of hacking spirit, I too wish brute force would end up in Lamer News instead.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately most of what gets posted to HN or could conceivably be posted here is already LLM generated to some degree. Because content of interest to HN tends to be written by the same people who increasingly prefer to use an LLM for everything they do, machine-generated submissions are only going to increase over time. Tagging submissions as LLM generated is ultimately futile, as one might as well tag water as we…
Or they could...just use Reddit or Lobsters, it's so weird that they want to fight the whole purpose of this site.
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Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#158The AI posts are better than the reddit tier politics slop
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#159I’ve been a hacker since I was 10, so about 30 years now. A couple of years ago, I felt the same way you did. And then I started properly/seriously using Claude Code. When Opus 4.5 came out, it was sincerely life-changing. I can prototype working projects in possibly 1/30th the time, and I can do them simultaneously. This post has made me realize that the flood of AI news isn’t annoying or boring to me anymore becaus…
I do NOT have a problem with AI.
Again, the problem is with the flooding that drowns-out other news. I intentionally say "limit the AI news" in this post's title.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or they could...just use Reddit or Lobsters, it's so weird that they want to fight the whole purpose of this site.
The whole purpose of this site is to "satisfy intellectual curiosity," not to post LLM generated content.
What is stopping "LLM generated content" from "satisfy[ing] intellectual curiosity"?