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Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by paulnpace »

nozzlegear wrote: post #58
consumer451 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

73% of users vote prior to reading TFA, according to this research. (I am sometimes guilty of this myself) We live in a world being dimished by confirmation bias, but this isn't a new thing. Those who wrote/approved the headlines always had more power than those who wrote the articles. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315096490_Consumers... edit: disclaimer, no hate on TFA. Just responding to the comment.

73% of Reddit users vote prior to reading TFA: > In the present work, we introduce and make available a new dataset containing the activity logs that recorded all activity for 309 Reddit users for one year.

Reddit "users"

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by freetime2 »

andrewjf wrote: post #48
millerm wrote: post #20

I can deal with a launch problem. I am looking forward to being able to check it out. I stopped coming to HN as often as I used to because there has been too much AI talk. It's like a dang AI subreddit. I don't want anything to do with AI. I have lost 2 jobs to AI budgets and stupid executive decisions. It's no longer part of my personal and professional life. I hope it works out.

I agree with you, but haven't really left yet since there's still a good amount of discourse outside AI related topics. Seems a significant amount of contributors here are all to eager to fall over themselves putting themselves, their juniors, children, and colleagues out of work, long term.

My personal stance is that the genie is out of the bottle, and there's likely no putting it back. Kind of like nuclear weapons: I wish they didn't exist, but since they do I'd rather be on the side that has them.

Honestly it's an incredible technology the likes of which I never thought I would see in my lifetime. It's definitely not perfect, but it is improving at a frightening pace. Some days I am optimistic for how it might shape the future, and other days I am scared.

If goverments wanted to make a credible effort to limit how they are used, I would support that. But I'm not terribly optimistic that can or will happen.

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by amelius »

My immediate thought was already expressed in one of the few comments:

> Does this use an LLM to categorize "AI-related" vs "not-AI related" articles? Would be ironic. Lol

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by maxkosty »

simonw wrote: post #18

I built (well, vibe-coded) a version of this a while back that runs against the Hacker News API, it's static HTML on GitHub Pages so I don't have to run a server for it: https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-filtered

Love that this is configurable unlike OPs version. That way I can exclude "I rewrote ____ in Rust".

Would be nice to have "include" option... for those of use who may want to ONLY read posts about AI or whatever else niche interest.

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

freetime2 wrote: post #72
andrewjf wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you, but haven't really left yet since there's still a good amount of discourse outside AI related topics. Seems a significant amount of contributors here are all to eager to fall over themselves putting themselves, their juniors, children, and colleagues out of work, long term.

My personal stance is that the genie is out of the bottle, and there's likely no putting it back. Kind of like nuclear weapons: I wish they didn't exist, but since they do I'd rather be on the side that has them. Honestly it's an incredible technology the likes of which I never thought I would see in my lifetime. It's definitely not perfect, but it is improving at a frightening pace. Some days I am optimistic for how…

How a post about "Hacker News, Sans AI" became about .... AI !

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by onetokeoverthe »

freetime2 wrote: post #72
andrewjf wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you, but haven't really left yet since there's still a good amount of discourse outside AI related topics. Seems a significant amount of contributors here are all to eager to fall over themselves putting themselves, their juniors, children, and colleagues out of work, long term.

My personal stance is that the genie is out of the bottle, and there's likely no putting it back. Kind of like nuclear weapons: I wish they didn't exist, but since they do I'd rather be on the side that has them. Honestly it's an incredible technology the likes of which I never thought I would see in my lifetime. It's definitely not perfect, but it is improving at a frightening pace. Some days I am optimistic for how…

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Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by johnfn »

krapp wrote: post #70
johnfn wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s interesting how, as someone more pro-AI, I feel the exact opposite way - every comment thread just devolves into people saying AI is stupid (OK, perhaps modulo new model releases from frontier labs, those tend to be fairly positive). Like we had a thread about what your AI workflow is and people were coming in and saying they didn’t have one because AI is bad. Really? Do these people enter threads about what you…

> Do these people enter threads about what your favorite Rust library is and say they don’t have any and Rust is a bad language? Yes. And Rust people enter threads about other languages and projects not written in Rust and say they're bad because they aren't Rust. Welcome to Hacker News.

If you can find me even a single example of this I’d love to see it.

Re: Hacker News, Sans AI

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Post by bakugo »

I have my own version of this as a browser extension paired with a backend that runs all new submissions through a small LLM to classify them, which catches more than a simple word match. Fight fire with fire, as they say.

Though I haven't used it much lately, because seeing half of the front page disappear when I enable it is a bit disheartening.

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