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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 ofrzeta »

cromka wrote: post #25
andrewstuart wrote: post #12

I like it. It’s relevant and current technology.

Are the Lenovo and Braxx examples I provided not relevant nor current?

Lenovo is just vaporware currently as was their laptop with translucent display. YMMV but I no longer waste my time with things that are not available (and may never be). The Lenovo page that is linked from the page you posted is super light on details and just fluffy marketing.

Doing some research on "AirJet solid-state cooling" turns up products that have been announced at CES 2023. More info may be found at the Frore Systems homepage. Funy enough Airjets seems to be used in some NVidia systems such as Jetson Orin.

I don't want to shill Apple but my Macbook Air with M4 performs great and never runs the fan (does it have one, I don't know), so the Airjet thing (for me) is pretty much a solution in search of a problem.

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

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Post by cromka »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #89
cromka wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Not in my experience. Multiple submissions (non Show HN) of mine have been second chanced. I can't be certain, but I don't think any of my Shows have been... I guess that says more about the content I create than the content I share.

Fair, didn't know that. But that proves some editing is in place, it could be a bit more active, perhaps.

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

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Post by cromka »

mschuster91 wrote: post #95
cromka wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Fair, didn't know that. But that proves some editing is in place, it could be a bit more active, perhaps.

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

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Post by shermantanktop »

kurtis_reed wrote: post #63
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 .

People have been saying we've been "at peak hype-cycle" for years

Peak so far.

Maybe there’s a hype singularity where the hype is so strong that nothing can escape.

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

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Post by user43928 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #45
ipsod wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That seems like comparing the internet to jQuery.

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

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Post by cromka »

dewey wrote: post #77
cromka wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not, HN was this product, it just changed. Hence the invitation to discussion on the subject.

Or the main topics just changed to something you are not that interested in, there was always a temporary bias to some bigger topics. If I would not like to hear about funding rounds when money was cheap, being here 5 years ago wouldn't have been fun. If I don't like to hear about Go being here 10 years ago would not be fun. My timelines may be off, but the general industry trends showing up on HN were always there (…

> Or the main topics just changed to something you are not that interested in,

I never said I AM NOT interested in AI. Can you re-read my post with an open mind?

> If I would not like to hear about funding rounds when money was cheap,

> If I don't like to hear about Go being here 10 years ago would not be fun.

I didn't say I don't like hearing about AI. I just don't like NOT HEARING about other stuff!

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

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Post by cake-rusk »

smt88 wrote: post #15

I’ve been a hacker since I was 10, so about 30 years now. A couple of years ago, I felt the same way you did. And then I started properly/seriously using Claude Code. When Opus 4.5 came out, it was sincerely life-changing. I can prototype working projects in possibly 1/30th the time, and I can do them simultaneously. This post has made me realize that the flood of AI news isn’t annoying or boring to me anymore becaus…

> I can prototype working projects in possibly 1/30th the time, and I can do them simultaneously.

This takes all the fun out of programming for me.

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

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Post by otherayden »

flexagoon wrote: post #56
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 .

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

Thank you for plugging my site :)

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

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Post by cromka »

mschuster91 wrote: post #91

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 pr…

That should be somewhat feasible to be done objectively, now that we have LLM text fingerprinting regulations in place.

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

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Post by krapp »

mschuster91 wrote: post #91

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 pr…

Unfortunately most of what gets posted to HN or could conceivably be posted here is already LLM generated to some degree. Because content of interest to HN tends to be written by the same people who increasingly prefer to use an LLM for everything they do, machine-generated submissions are only going to increase over time. Tagging submissions as LLM generated is ultimately futile, as one might as well tag water as wet.

Also HN's design ethos of not having "silos" precludes having tags or filters or blocklists, since they want everyone to see the same content at the same time. This is the kind of thing you're going to have to use with a browser plugin or third party service if you want it at all.

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