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

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Post by cromka »

skeledrew wrote: post #103
cromka wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> you're new here Their account is 2 years older than yours. Doesn't say much since you could've been using another or sans account long before then, but still.

Right, but my point was about what they said about the use-case. They couldn't have been coming here for AI news since 2017. So did they finally find their use-case for HN some 2 years ago?

If they were indeed coming here before AI revolution, it was a different type of medium.

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

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Post by BoxOfRain »

ChickeNES wrote: post #131
mschuster91 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Turn on showdead and watch the AI bros yell into the void.

All I ever see are the Anti's and the crazies? Like the guy (who is in this very post) who keeps opening accounts to complain about Claude related posts and saying various slurs. Almost feels like the old days when Terry Davis would post technical rants with slurs applied liberally.

To be honest I have showdead on and while I see the things you see, I also see a lot of blatant AI slop getting killed off too. I'm sure most people on here are at least somewhat attuned to Claude's 'voice' by now.

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

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Post by ipsod »

embedding-shape wrote: post #127
user43928 wrote: post #115

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That seems like comparing the internet to jQuery.

Only if you're actively inside of the hype-machine and don't see it from the outside with the experience of previously having been inside of the hype-machine.

No. RoR lets you build a certain class of web apps faster. AI lets you build almost anything faster.

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

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Post by ffsm8 »

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.

I think he's meme-ing

https://xkcd.com/1172/

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

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Post by proactivesvcs »

cromka wrote: post #21
proactivesvcs wrote: post #18

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?

In the last month, excluding this post, three of your five submissions were AI focused, and one was part-AI. For the past two months, it's five of 11. Certainly not "explicitly AI" but it's about half, which in the context of this overall discussion is towards "too much", IYAM. Half of HN being AI is still a poor signal-to-noise ratio.

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

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Post by wolvoleo »

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

"92 of 179 articles survived the filter". So about half of the posts are about AI now, more than I expected.

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

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Post by domador »

mdp2021 wrote: post #189
cromka wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 p…

What does the "NN" in "NN revolution" mean?

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

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Post by wolvoleo »

slowpacket wrote: post #178
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

"Ironically, this project was built with AI coding and uses AI to filter out articles about AI. Go figure."

Well it is the best way to do a 'fuzzy' filter like that. Rather than trying frantically to chase keywords.

I don't think anyone considers AI to be something useless. It sure has its uses, I use it a lot to help with research. But it is sometimes shoehorned into things it doesn't belong, or its capabilities overblown for marketing. I think that's what people object to.

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

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Post by FLeXMurphy »

Philpax wrote: post #88

While I'm sympathetic to the sentiment, the ongoing automation of intelligence is, for better or worse, one of the most consequential things that can/will happen to "hackers" (as well as white-collar workers in general), and it is very difficult for us to look away from that asteroid in the sky.

Surprised you put "hackers" in quotes but not intelligence.
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