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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 conductr »

qmmmur wrote: post #66

It is reducing my desire to read this site. I don't have anything against the subject matter necessarily, and sometimes it can be interesting, but in large parts it is attracting very low quality discussions and content about vibe coding X product.

I feel it's to generic in application to be interesting to a broad audience like HN. Some things I like because I have interest in the problem space and am interested in how they applied AI to it. But most things I'm not even interested in the problem space and so could care less how they applied AI to it.

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

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Post by lazide »

Dilettante_ wrote: post #240
johnb231 wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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If you're unable to discern that the word serves a purpose(emphasis) in that sentence, I literally don't know what to say to you.

It used to be that literally had a meaningful definition - quite literally. Now it doesn’t (see #2) [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally]

Not everyone has caught up.

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

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Post by dttze »

simonw wrote: post #245
rjh29 wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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In a thread devoted to filtering out AI, I gave them a way of filtering out AI. (The fact that I wrote it using AI doesn't really matter, but I personally found it amusing so I included the prompts.)

> The fact that I wrote it using AI doesn't really matter

Given that it is a poorly implemented solution that doesn't really do what the OP asked, yes it is.

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

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Post by seydor »

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.

Oh my god, the years of the JS frameworks. Millions traumatized for life

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

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Post by seydor »

conductr wrote: post #275
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've been here a while and this is certainly more, prolonged, and has no end in sight compared to most other hype cycles we've experienced. It's also exceedingly generic such that AI isn't really a topic, it's an entire classification or maybe domain to steal from the animal kingdom hierarchy.

to be fair, AI is replacing all computers so talking e.g. about languages is believed to be soon obsolete.

I would like to see more nuanced and interesting articles about AI though. Right now it's all about VCs measuring the size of their investments and the politics of alleged superstar programmers.

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

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Post by earnestinger »

iib wrote: post #273
MarceColl wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well, it takes around 20 minutes to get an invite, so hardly a problem if you prefer only tech articles

How exactly does it take 20 minutes to get an invite? I have not tried it, but I can't see how that would be easy.

No idea. Read only is good enough.

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

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Post by 0x000xca0xfe »

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…

You can even make it live with SSE/EventSource.
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