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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 therealpygon »

Lerc wrote: post #27

I 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…

I’ll never cease being amazed at how much people whine about scrolling past a post they don’t want to click on. It’s the tech equivalent of “my kid shouldn’t have to see ‘those’ types of books on the shelf in a library”. At the time of writing this, 16 of the top 20 stories on my feed are not AI related in any way.

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

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Post by AbstractH24 »

Lerc wrote: post #27

I 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…

But I don’t see anyone saying group B isn’t welcome in both groups. It’s not as though you can only be in a finite amount of them.

At the same time, I never saw HN do this with any other trend so why with AI?

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

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Post by ac29 »

nailer wrote: post #353
conception wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlike crypto though LLMs are actually useful.

Blockchain is useful though. Get 10,000 dollars to poland right now and pay less than a cent for the privilege if I’m wrong. ‘AI’ used to be shitty chatbots that didn’t work. HN acts like crypto is still in 2015 with slow transfer times and giant fees.

> Get 10,000 dollars to poland right now and pay less than a cent for the privilege if I’m wrong.

How do you exchange from dollars to crypto and back to dollars (or zloty) for less than a cent?

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

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Post by op00to »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #291

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.

Perhaps you can fork and enhance https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt

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

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Post by nailer »

ac29 wrote: post #383
nailer wrote: post #353

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blockchain is useful though. Get 10,000 dollars to poland right now and pay less than a cent for the privilege if I’m wrong. ‘AI’ used to be shitty chatbots that didn’t work. HN acts like crypto is still in 2015 with slow transfer times and giant fees.

> Get 10,000 dollars to poland right now and pay less than a cent for the privilege if I’m wrong. How do you exchange from dollars to crypto and back to dollars (or zloty) for less than a cent?

Excellent question!

1. Swap it to PyUSD and send it to the Solana address on your PayPal account.

2. 'Sell it' in the PayPal, 1 PyUSD is sold for 1 USD. There are no fees.

3. Move it to your bank, it will take 1 day but the entire amount will be there.

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

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Post by krapp »

simonw wrote: post #347
th0ma5 wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has no server side log? How do I know that if there is no policy?

You could read the code. This is Hacker News after all.

You can't actually read the code. They use a proprietary fork of Arc Forums that they won't release.

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

simonw wrote: post #363
heavyset_go wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost certain you can use the HN Algolia to do the same thing by excluding terms

I had to switch away from Algolia - the problem is they only model "show items on the homepage" using a tag that's automatically applied to exactly 30 items, which means any filtering knocks that down to eg 15. I switched to using the older firebase API which can return up to 500 item IDs from the current (paginated) homepage - then I fetch and filter details of the first 200. https://github.com/simonw/tools/commit/c…

I should have looked at your source, I didn't realize you were using the Algolia API

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

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Post by LoveMortuus »

I wouldn't worry too much about it.

It's just that AI/LLM is in fashion at the moment, but it'll pass as all trends pass. Before it was crypto and "Rewritten in Rust". Trends come and they go.

If you're finding that it's affecting your mental health, it might be better to just take a break, there's a high likelihood that HN will still be here when you return. ^^

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

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Post by Tainnor »

CL_ergo wrote: post #49
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…

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.

I mean, many people who "hate AI" don't think that LLMs are useless for everything. I'm very unconvinced by e.g. using LLMs for coding, but that they'd be good at tagging content, sentiment analysis, etc.? That's not really hard to believe.
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