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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.
No. HN is like this. It skews heavy towards startups and right now if you have one of those and you aren't putting AI in your investor propaganda, you're not going to get many investors. Besides, it's already starting to slow as people realize AI isn't as great as the influencers want you to believe.
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Not your parent, and not anti-AI, but I’ve seen similar things to this thread in smaller spaces I’m in. There are some people who are having genuine crises over this stuff, some of it existential, and some of it “wow I thought my friends had some basic agreements about the world that we actually don’t,” and seeing this stuff on the regular just fans these sorts of issues. Also, in a simpler sense, there are a limited…
> Also, in a simpler sense, there are a limited number of homepage spots, and if you don’t want to see a topic, it effectively shrinks your homepage. If HN only showed five stories to me it would be less useful than it is now. Yes, I feel like all these shallow "[Someone] vibe-coded [thing] with AI using [Claud whatever]" articles are hitting the front page and muscling out other, more interesting ones. Just like the…
https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/
years ago but I don't stand by that article because I don't feel that way anymore. I do stand by the sequel
https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/
because that's the operating principle of YOShInOn which is something a little more sophisticated applied to RSS feeds and productized.
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.
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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.
Lobste.rs provides that distinction.
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Still seeing `Kiro: A new agentic IDE` BTW.
If the filters UI at the top shows "llm, ai" instead of "llm, ai, agent" then you probably have that previous search saved in localStorage.
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".
Wish it returned more unfiltered items tho.
But I have no idea how to separate topics on HN. Is it even possible to do so while keeping the community intact.