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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 mschuster91 »

I'd also SERIOUSLY ask for an "LLM generated" flag in addition to normal flags - on both comments and submissions, that is.

Obvious slop comments thankfully already get flagged or downvoted in the hell they belong, but the submissions, oh dear god I do not wish to engage with shit written by AI any more. It's questionable enough if you let LLMs do your coding work for you, but if you can't even be arsed to write a proper README.md on your own, why the fuck should I be forced to waste my time reading it?

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

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Post by sammy0910 »

cromka wrote: post #70
flexagoon wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also https://unslop.news , which removes just the posts about AI, rather than all posts that mention it at all

OK, this is cool, actually! Thanks! It cannot be a long-term solution, though. Most people don't use them and if HN continues to be AI-foremost, many will simply stop coming here to post other interesting, non-AI stuff. A vicious circle.

theres also

https://sprinklz.io/public/pdwt4dve5uai

which additionally lets you add and modify custom filters

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

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Post by skeledrew »

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.

> because it's become foundational infrastructure

Which will happen in due time, like electricity and the general computer.

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

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Post by vanschelven »

vanschelven wrote: post #65
leonheld wrote: post #3

HN 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 .

This is just asking for a parody-site that displays literally an empty page though.

As inspired by this tumblr which did not age well:

https://www.tumblr.com/picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes

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

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Post by mschuster91 »

cromka wrote: post #74
jermaustin1 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They already do this. It's called the "second chance" pile. You will get an email saying that your submission didn't get the love they felt it should, and will add it to a list of submissions that get submitted to the front page, to see if the community agrees.

Fair, but I think that's only for "Show HN" stuff?

Nope. If you email hn@ycombinator.com with the subject "second chance pool" and it is not your submission, there is a very high chance one of the lovely mods will take the submission and second-chance it.

Often enough, they even email the original authors and submissions about it if it is a really good submission!

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

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Post by Dlemlo »

cromka wrote: post #20
hannofcart wrote: post #16

Your 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.

> Your 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 But you can get that from some AI-specific sources, it doesn't have to be HN. That's the point, this medium used to be much more universal. It also means you're new here, because that's not what HN was until quite recently, so your use-case wouldn't work.

Tbh if you are long enough on hn, quite a lot of stuff gets repeated over and over.

AI gets 'that much' tracktion because it is right now the fastest changing technology we have and with the biggest impact day-to-day for a lot of people on hn.

The CVEs from the last few month? Normal topic for hn, it became an AI toopic because AI found them.

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

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Post by cromka »

layer8 wrote: post #75
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…

The Brax products and the company values look very interesting to me, thanks OP for pointing them out.

I thought so, too! There aren't too many in this field that do this and I think they deserve some recognition only because of that. They're also not entirely new, their previous product has been around for a while.

BTW. Their tablet is also interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyEYum3cIQQ

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