Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?

just like any other monopoly

Eh, somewhat. There are definitely more articles and projects created by AI tools nowadays, and those just feel uninteresting to me.

But at the same time, I have to question whether I'd feel the same way about any other era of Hacker News. Like on Reddit, a small percentage of submissions will interest me on any given day. However, that doesn't necessarily mean the others are bad, they're just not for me.

I do have to wonder if you're mostly just noticing that the majority of content here simply won't be something you're interested in, just like in any other community.

Agree. I used to enjoy the nerd or technical articles on how stuff works, why it is optimized for speed, why it is not secure etc...more on technical stuff and the startup world ecosystem. Now a days I only see breaking news type of articles which I can easily find in any other websites.

It's very different these days. I've said similar things a number of times.

~15 years ago HN was full of really interesting deep dives into technical topics. There used to be articles about different algorithms, frameworks, programming languages, etc. Back then I even used to write tech posts and tutorials myself and share them here with some success.

The other thing I miss are the entrepreneurial posts... My friend introduced me to HN because I was interested in business and tech, but I didn't really get the appeal of HN for a while. But I remember when I was like 19, browsing HN during my lunch break at my crappy retail job and found this,

https://sofamoolah.com/2011/07/14/the-conclusion-a-6-figure-...

That post at the time got me totally hooked on HN... It was these real world posts about the struggles, successes and failures of normal people starting businesses online with their tech knowledge that I loved.

I literally never see articles like that here anymore. Although, I'm not sure that's just HN... I suspect the world has just changed. Those days when someone could start a successful company from writing some code in their bedroom has more or less gone.

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