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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?
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious where people would go to as an alternative. I like looking at lobste.rs for non-AI stuff, but to post there you need to be invited by an existing member so it's not a perfect alternative.
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Second on the list of things HN needs a solution to is fucking troll green accounts because it's getting ridiculous.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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. That's it? Fan is about noise and nothing else? The much lower volume/dissipation and weight/dissipation ratios, which made this Lenovo latop 830g, which easily allows for some 200-300g of extra battery is a solution in search of a problem? Sorry, if you don't see this then we have no…
Ironically "Project AeroBlade and Project Swan proof-of-concepts explore the future of AI-powered business computing" but anyway I just read this when I re-visited the Lenovo site to learn more about that prototype with respect to the CPU it is using. I could not find anything, though. My point is that maybe it's better to develop CPUs with less power consumption than to invent new cooling techniques (hence "solution…
> My point is that maybe it's better to develop CPUs with less power consumption than to invent new cooling techniques
And why not both? Because that's exactly what's happening. Vapor chambers? Heatsinks before that?
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was it? Iirc there was always something interesting on the front page besides the blockchain. Now there are days when there's nothing besides the "AI" created "AI" spam.
I think it goes past 2018, but yes. It's a similar proportion of activity.
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#185The Brax industries stuff you mentioned looked really sleek and fun until I noticed it's pretty much vaporvare as for today. I'm a great fan of the former submission you mentioned: a technology that seemed innovative but not in production but is available now. Stuff that will be available next year or never is simply less interesting.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#186I’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.
I have the same "1/30th ... simultaneous" experience with coding agents, and I am having fun. Directing teams of agents to solve many problems (or create many useful things) for me has its own fun challenges/puzzles-to-solve.
Some of the fun is redirecting coding agents when they get stuck, by showing them code or design they could not work out on their own. Some of the fun is designing tools to rein-in AI coding agents, keep them on track, and verify their outputs. Some of the fun is exploring new areas for me: compilers, game dev, language design, emulators, embedded, etc.
So I am having fun at the CTO/PM/Engineering Manager level but also at the lowest coding level.
I've been coding since the early 70s. This brings back the joy I had discovering microprocessors and electronics.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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!
The way you're responding to the comments in this thread just makes me dislike your idea even more. You want the site to be curated with things you like instead of what the community upvotes. That's it.
> You want
No, bud. That's what your projection says. I said clearly I suggest HN curate more or give tools to self-curate.
> The way you're responding
How am I responding?
> makes me dislike your idea even more.
OK.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#188I like it. It’s relevant and current technology.
Are the Lenovo and Braxx examples I provided not relevant nor current?
The Brax example you posted was a YouTube link, which is an instant skip for me. Personally, no phone with dated tech is going to interest me. Their WallUp looks interesting but there’s no product just a waitlist and an animation. I already have TRMNL displays around my home, so I’m in their market.
For Lenovo, their Yoga was interesting ~15 years ago but Aeroblade is just a proof of concept, and thinner laptops in general are irrelevant to me. I use a powerful laptop and a tablet, not a compromise between them.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#189Earlier 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.
> if HN continues
The NN revolution which started 15 years ago cannot be understated - if anything, some areas are not progressing as fast as they should and some of us are nervously waiting.
Have you actually multiplied the weight of submissions in your mental model by how consequential each one is?
Because we are still submitting even more idle "intellectual curiosities" - but these are in no way "times of static peace and ordinary administration".
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#190I miss all the programming articles. It feels like everyone has given up with the very idea of ever writing code now and the entire practice of making software has been handed over to AI.