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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?"

#51
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…

It's about a topic not the people.

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

#52
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…

Great example of the power of vibe coding. The first item is literally "Kiro: A new agentic IDE".

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

#54
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…

Top story: Kiro: new agentic IDE

Just add “agent” to the search box. It’s saved in local storage.

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

#55
post #13

No, will go away just like all the crypto stuff - remember that time? - went away.

But but the Rust stuff is still there ! (To my pleasure I must confess)

A new crypto LLM AI on the blockchain-l - in Rust!

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

#56
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…

Top story: Kiro: new agentic IDE

I just added "agent" to the default exclusion list.

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

#57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The last few times my reply was "AI is 4/30 or 5/30 of the front page, it's not such a big deal", but today it is 9/30. A bigger impact for me has been the number of mentions of AI in the comments. It's not just that a large part of the front page is dominated by LLM hype posts, it's that every single post has a least one guy near the top somehow bringing AI into the discussion. I don't even care if it's "AI will f…

> I just don't want to hear anything about AI ever again. Genuinely curious: Why? Don’t get me wrong, I upvoted this post, and would love to see AI separated out, or at least tagged (like a root comment suggests) so that I can filter them out if I want. But I can’t say I’d never want to hear anything about AI ever again (though I’m headed in that direction). What field are you in, and what are your interests, such th…

Not the OP, but I'm sick to death of hearing about AI

The hype around it is ridiculous. I don't personally find it nearly as useful as people are saying, so everything feels like people are trying to gaslight me

Don't get me wrong, it's cool tech. Amazing stuff. I just personally don't have much interest in it until it's much more reliable for the things I want to use it for

And I'm really exhausted, tired of hearing about how this is going to replace people like me any minute now

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

#58
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…

feature request for OP: sort by "LLM Agentic AI" embedding cosine distance desc

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

#59
post #37

No. There's always a flavor of the month. Go back 3-5 years and every third post was crypto or NFT related. AI/LLM too will pass. I've never really understood this desire of people to effectively hide content that doesn't interest them. Just... ignore it. Like there are enough people on HN who really care about academia and research. I don't. But that's fine. Let them be. But here's the interesting part: so many on H…

The desire is relateively simply explained. Some people used to find HN interesting, but the modern set of things being upvoted isn't matching their interests anymore. They already ignore the content they don't like, the problem is the content they do like isn't there anymore. The assumption, I expect, is that if there was less LLM content the site would have more of the "older style" content they used to enjoy. I don't necessarily think that will happen, but that's my interpretation of the sentiment.

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

#60
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…

> 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" It could just as easily be "I don't feel like there is a place here for me anymore and I wish I had another place to go"

In my experience that is not what people mean.

People with that sentiment ask about what alternative places exist, some of them make their own places.

My post above mentioned something I notice on Reddit. I hardly ever visit Reddit these days. It doesn't really feel like the place for me now. I am not posting this comment on Reddit.

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