Perhaps you could lead the change you wish to see?
Well, I do, don't I, by trying and posting some other stuff than explicitly AI?
Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
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Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#22Every platform captures the Zeitgeist somewhat, the AI related post are just a reflection of that.
While I also somewhat dislike it. I don’t think limiting them resolves the issue.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#23HN is a reflection of the industry and we're at peak hype-cycle at the moment. I use this when I need a break https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai .
It's unlikely that right now is peak anything AI.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#24At least the frontpage is no longer filled with Ruby and Ruby on Rails projects anymore :) These things tend to improve/get worse by themselves over time, if it's not AI, it'll be something else, until the industry moves on. Right now, seems we're still "discovering" new things around AI, so the submissions will surely continue, and interested parties will continue to upvote. But AI will have its eventually Ruby/RoR…
The Erlang front page was nice, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#25I like it. It’s relevant and current technology.
Are the Lenovo and Braxx examples I provided not relevant nor current?
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#26At least the frontpage is no longer filled with Ruby and Ruby on Rails projects anymore :) These things tend to improve/get worse by themselves over time, if it's not AI, it'll be something else, until the industry moves on. Right now, seems we're still "discovering" new things around AI, so the submissions will surely continue, and interested parties will continue to upvote. But AI will have its eventually Ruby/RoR…
That's a hot take. AI has fundamentally shifted things. Start-ups can start up 10x faster, and HN is start-up flavored.
If people quit talking about AI, it'll be because it's become foundational infrastructure, so it's not the primary focus of the articles, but just the atmosphere they all exist within, like the computer, or the internet.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#27Its 13:15 UTC and 21 of the 30 submissions on the HN home page are not AI related. I'm not saying there isn't a problem with AI-related submissions, but I'm not sure its a flood.
If it is on the homepage then is it not algorithmically what the community wants? Have you tried the https://news.ycombinator.com/newest link? I find that I prefer it over the homepage and have does so for years.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#28I think there's still plenty of good stuff here, but agree that is beneficial to be kept up for to date on model evolution. We gotta get through this together.
I'm glad HN isn't a curated feed, it would end up like all the the others.
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#29I think this is just how it goes. Were you here in 2017-2018 when it was all blockchain all the time?
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#30Your suggestion would break my use case: i.e I check out HN every day to see what the latest models that have been released are, and opinions from erudite people who have taken them for a spin. Keeping abreast of fast moving AI developments with informed opinions/comments for various new models/agents etc. is primarily what I'm here for.
Limiting the flood wouldn't mean necessarily omitting stories like "new model released" (within reason); it'd mean omitting "check out my new vibecoded slop" or "check out this article that's obviously LLM-written and provides very little value" (what we once would have called "blogspam", or dismissed as SEO-bait).