It’s not just Hacker News. It’s everywhere else too. I want some sort of web extension that allows me to just block list items from various social media websites when the topic at hand is in my blocklist.
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?"
#292I 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…
I think there is a fundamental disconnect in this response. What the user is asking for is for a procedural and cultural change. What you’ve come up with is a technical solution that kind of mimics a cultural change.
I don’t think it’s wrong, but I also don’t think we can really “AI generate” our way into better communities.
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Of course I can discern that. I think it sounds stupid and childish, and makes someone appear less intelligent. Overused and misused word. But this is now derailing the thread.
I’m with you here - it’s a completely superfluous word that the young have adopted as some form of belonging ritual. It has no purpose, adds no emphasis and is just poor English masquerading as a statement.
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#294We had it the way we had,
Because of the way it was.
And, because of the way it is,
We have it the way we have.
And so it is.
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#295I for one am happy with this site’s own little fads. Who knows, either AI stays with us and I’ll be glad to have got my helping here via osmosis. Or it goes away and I can reflect on this fun little quirk our community once had.
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#296Nope. While the blockchain craze was less meaningful and slightly less annoying, it died down. This will too (even though there's more actual value hiding in corners).
There are certainly periods where one concept is "viral" and appears quite often; that's normal.
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#297I have seen this question asked on subreddits, Not about AI, but for other topics that some people dislike. They always seem to take the form of "Should we divide this group into A and B, A stays here and B goes over there and that way everybody is happy" Invariably the person who proposes this wants to remain in group A and will not be a participant in group B. To me this seems like the subtext is "Those people are…
> To me this seems like the subtext is "Those people are not welcome here, they are not like us. It's not like we have anything against them, we just don't want them ramming it down our throats" I am truly tired of AI being rammed down my throat, not just via the tech news, but in article content (slop), in un-asked-for tech product features, and at my own tech job. The solution is not to divide the community and mak…
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Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a special kind of irony to use AI to help out the people who hate AI. It's not hypocrisy or anything negative like that, but I do find it amusing for some reason.
> to help out the people who hate AI. Was it? I feel like it was clearly meant to be smug and inflammatory rather than useful in any meaningful way.
I was gong for smug, inflammatory and useful at the same time.
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#299I have seen this question asked on subreddits, Not about AI, but for other topics that some people dislike. They always seem to take the form of "Should we divide this group into A and B, A stays here and B goes over there and that way everybody is happy" Invariably the person who proposes this wants to remain in group A and will not be a participant in group B. To me this seems like the subtext is "Those people are…
Hacker news, like everything in tech, is susceptible to hype. Today it's AI, a few years ago it was Bitcoin. I do think it's worthwhile to occasionally have a discussion about what content we want to see, and if a particular topic is getting too much attention. It's also totally reasonable for a group of people to not want their agenda hijacked. So, IMO, let the discussion continue. Let's see what comes out of it.
I should add: Many years ago I used to read a news site that was modeled after slashdot. One day the person running it decided to switch it to be community-moderated.
Every day it was the same discussion over again, from someone who didn't bother to do a Google search or look at what was posted the day prior. After a week or so of seeing the same discussion over and over again, I stopped reading the news site.
Needless to say, it's important to occasionally have discussions like this. I also think we under-appreciate the amount of moderation that goes on here. Sometimes I look at the "new" feed and it is just loaded with lots and lots of nonsense, so I get that someone has to put their finger on the scale to keep the quality up.
Re: Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
#300I 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…
AI solving the too-much-AI complaint is heart-warming. We're at the point where we will start demanding organic and free-range software, not this sweatshop LLM one-shot vibery.
Love it. :D