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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 Karrot_Kream »

devmor wrote: post #169
antonymoose wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As annoyed as I am with the constant deluge of uninteresting AI/LLM articles, I would much rather see a split between tech and startup news. I think that's a lasting and useful distinction.

Isn't topical subcommunities just Reddit?

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

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Post by ryandrake »

bombcar wrote: post #55
bestouff wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But but the Rust stuff is still there ! (To my pleasure I must confess)

A new crypto LLM AI on the blockchain-l - in Rust!

You joke--but an article exactly like that has probably been posted here.

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

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Post by leptons »

conception wrote: post #80
danbruc wrote: post #13

No, will go away just like all the crypto stuff - remember that time? - went away.

Unlike crypto though LLMs are actually useful.

"A broken clock is right twice a day". I guess that's useful too, in a similar kind of way.

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

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #184
parpfish wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Folks really do come to HN to read the articles and then maybe get drawn into a discussion. based on the number of comments i see that are oblivious to the actual content of the articles, i'm pretty sure the user flow is "Folks come to HN to read headlines and have a conversation, and then maybe get drawn into reading an article"

Those comments can't reflect people who are drawn in by the article but don't engage. Upvotes hint it is a significant number. Past that, I don't see non-reading commenters being a dominant presence. Some topics draw a few more than normal but that's the worst of it.

Really? I feel like P(didn't read the article | wrote a comment) to be quite high personally. Any thread with > 100 comments seems to be full of these posters.

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

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Post by fuzzythinker »

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.

That was very different. Somehow the entire front page was Erlang, but it was only for a day or 2. AI is different from that. It's like a good 40-50% of the posts for at least a year or more, and I don't see it going away anytime soon. It's also different from web3/etc. as those were at most 10% of the posts and most of us can see it's just hype.

I'm not fighting for a split/fork, just stating the fact that it's nothing compared to Erlang.

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

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Post by Bluestein »

cmdrk wrote: post #176
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.

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

Seconded :)
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