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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?

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Post by blitzar »

cromka wrote: post #13
aurareturn wrote: post #11

Both of those examples wouldn't have gotten traction in the pre-AI HN in my opinion. The Lenovo laptop jet is experimental and the details suggests that it uses 7.5w to cool 30w. That's not very efficient. You might as well have a small fan and let it spin at a low RPM to reduce noise. There doesn't seem to be a breakthrough here. The Brax industries one is just an ad from the company's official Youtube channel. I do…

> and the details suggests that it uses 7.5w to cool 30w. "Secondly, AeroBlade reportedly uses four AirJet Mini modules rated at roughly 7.5W each , theoretically amounting to 30W of cooling." How about some less skimming of the text before you jump the contrarian gun? > I don't think the product is interesting at all. Which one?

> How about some less skimming of the text before you jump the contrarian gun?

That would be against the rules

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by cromka »

nonethewiser wrote: post #31

I noticed it as well but I don’t see a problem with it. I have spot-checked it at times and saw 5 to 8 of the top 10 posts about AI or directly adjacent. We are in an emergent, dynamic periodt. AI is revolutionary and will continue to get better. The world will change drastically because of it. This seems so obvious yet many will call it purely hype, no real value, etc. We are still in the incubation period, just lik…

> I noticed it as well but I don’t see a problem with it.

Again, I don't have a problem with AI news, I have a problem with missing out on other news that simply don't surface the news from the "New" abyss.

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by swozey »

My linkedin is just pages and pages of AI posts and layoffs.

Are lawyers, doctors, and people in non-tech fields getting the same thing? Is Doctor linkedin all about how AI is going to improve surgery while half your connections posts are about being unemployed?

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by embedding-shape »

ipsod wrote: post #26
embedding-shape wrote: post #6

At 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.

But do you think this is our first rodeo with "XYZ has fundamentally shifted things and startups now start up faster"? RoR did the same, Bootstrap as well, and countless of other things.

Don't get me wrong, I leverage these AI tools as well to be more productive, I'm not against using it or anything else. But I'm also old enough to know that eventually AI will be "old news" when the next hot topic comes around.

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by xutopia »

I can't help but feel that every 1% improvement over a benchmark from new releases of flagship LLMs isn't really that impressive anymore. To some extent it feels like LLM improvements is slowing down significantly despite increasing resources being spent on them.

The people promising AGI just 6 months ago are now more and more quiet about the possibility and rightfully so. LLMs alone are most likely not the path to AGI.

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by utopiah »

I wish but honestly that's unrealistic because a lot, if not most, people related to HN are currently their livelihood linked to AI, in one way or another.

Most companies, in software or not, are imposing minimum (after backtracking to suggest to maximized, until their started to pay bills) AI usage. A lot of people in HN also have stocks a lot of popular stocks is linked to AI success, whatever that might mean. A lot of AI entrepreneurs also are directly to sell AI, as it's simply where most of the VC money is currently going.

So... when it's this intertwined I think it will be difficult. If you know of other places I'd be curious.

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