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Re: We need tech news sources which exclude AI

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Post by postalcoder »

browningstreet wrote: post #53

Honestly. I want the AI news. I wish HN would add filtering features. I know they want us to all see the same homepage, but it’s time to let us have our tables. Pro-AI-era should be able to have a cohort thread, and anti-AI should be able to avoid it, or have a ring fence for their anti-AI discussions. We end up with some good threads on HN in both directions, but there’s a weight to early voices that can bend a post…

If you want HN with only AI stories, you can invert the AI filter on hcker.news. https://hcker.news/?ai=include

Re: We need tech news sources which exclude AI

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Post by sublinear »

As much as I hate to say it, you're ultimately burying your head in the sand.

It's not that AI is so great, but that we really are in a different era defined by creative constipation and politics.

What will unclog the jam is making something and sharing it. I don't think anyone cares if you use AI to create some of it as long as it's not slop or too derivative. Things will recover, but it will never be the same.

Re: We need tech news sources which exclude AI

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Post by conception »

OutOfHere wrote: post #33
marcus_holmes wrote: post #13

I've been coding professionally for over 30 years. LLMs have changed the profession more in the last 12 months than anything else has in all that 30 years. I would totally understand your position if it was, say, crypto that you wanted to exclude. The whole of crypto finance is an edifice of scam built on some interesting but not very useful maths, and there's nothing to redeem it. There are no interesting tech discu…

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There are lots of MLM and pyramid schemes worth billions of dollars. Doesn’t means they aren’t scams.

Re: We need tech news sources which exclude AI

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Post by marcus_holmes »

kazinator wrote: post #55
marcus_holmes wrote: post #13

I've been coding professionally for over 30 years. LLMs have changed the profession more in the last 12 months than anything else has in all that 30 years. I would totally understand your position if it was, say, crypto that you wanted to exclude. The whole of crypto finance is an edifice of scam built on some interesting but not very useful maths, and there's nothing to redeem it. There are no interesting tech discu…

OP does not want to censor AI topics from every news source. They want news sources which provide access to topics that exclude AI. (Without necessarily those same sources excluding AI entirely.) This is legitimate. There are many topics in computing and tech. Not wanting to read about AI in every category is much the same like not wanting to see a C++ forum filled with threads about Angular.

Thanks for the clarification.

To use your example; if the next version of the C++ language was switching to interpreted and compiled C++ was becoming an obsolete thing of the past, then I would expect every forum discussing C++ to be discussing this change. Trying to exclude that topic and still read interesting news about C++ would be very difficult, obviously, because everyone would be expressing their opinion on that change.

LLMs are the biggest change in the tech industry for ~50 years. It's not a separate tech (like C++ and Angular) it's a fundamental change in the way we develop software across the board. Yes you can still hand-code software (in the same way that in the example you could still compile C++) but the entire industry is moving in a different direction, and trying to ignore that seems quixotic.

Obviously, everyone is entitled to ignore whatever they want, so good luck to OP. I hope they find their source of non-AI tech news.

Re: We need tech news sources which exclude AI

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Post by CyMonk »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #56
botfriendsarent wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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An Apple II in 1982 has 256 Kb of RAM. My first computer, an Acorn Atom, had 12Kb of RAM with the expansion pack, and packed two programming languages into 1Kb of RAM. I used to write Assembler on it, and there were 3 registers and no paging at all. I wrote an timesheet tracking system for my A-level in 1986 on my BBC micro (the Atom's big brother). It took me more than half an hour, but it worked and did useful thin…

> An Apple II in 1982 has 256 Kb of RAM.

Just to nitpick, because this was my first computer. The Apple ][+ from 1982 featured an 8- bit 6502 processor capable of addressing max. 64 KB. If I remember correctly, the base model shipped with 16 KB and could be upgraded.

Re: We need tech news sources which exclude AI

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Post by marcus_holmes »

CyMonk wrote: post #67
marcus_holmes wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An Apple II in 1982 has 256 Kb of RAM. My first computer, an Acorn Atom, had 12Kb of RAM with the expansion pack, and packed two programming languages into 1Kb of RAM. I used to write Assembler on it, and there were 3 registers and no paging at all. I wrote an timesheet tracking system for my A-level in 1986 on my BBC micro (the Atom's big brother). It took me more than half an hour, but it worked and did useful thin…

> An Apple II in 1982 has 256 Kb of RAM. Just to nitpick, because this was my first computer. The Apple ][+ from 1982 featured an 8- bit 6502 processor capable of addressing max. 64 KB. If I remember correctly, the base model shipped with 16 KB and could be upgraded.

nitpick gratefully accepted :) I never had one, so had to look it up and got it wrong. Thanks :)
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