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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?"

#171
post #24

Feature request: HN could support a tag or label for categorizing a post. This would allow for filtering trivially, and creating views based on participant interest.

Someone has probably developed a personalized browser for HN.

Not a browser but a reskin website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44454305

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

#173

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

I will take a look at it.

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

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post #139
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.

I miss the days of daily Haskell posts.

"tell me you like Haskell without telling me you like Haskell" moment

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

#176
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.

I wouldn't mind the Erlang-dominated front page coming back :)

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

#177
> I would very much like to enjoy HN the way I did years ago, as a place where I'd discover things that I never otherwise would have come across.

So what does this mean exactly? Nothing LLM/AI related on hacker news is new to you, or you would easily have come across it without HN? Really? Where exactly are you finding your AI/LLM news?

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

#179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The prompt was to exclude llm and ai by default though

And that title didn't contain either of those words...what is the complaint again?

if all you want is word filtering in the title, you can simply write an adblock rule.

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

#180
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…

Great example of the power of vibe coding. The first item is literally "Kiro: A new agentic IDE".

Also a great example of how software can be perfectly to spec and also completely broken.
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