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

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The front page is a reflection of what folks want to see. AI is certainly mentioned a lot but it’s also top of mind for every industry atm. I still see a lot of diversity in posts though. After all this is a VC forum for startups.

This was true before the Internet was overrun with bots.

"Folks" doesn't mean what it did mean years ago.

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

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Says the green account astroturfer!

Yes, the quadrillion dollar anti-AI industry really pays exorbitant salaries to influencers!!!11!! Can the AI people do anything else than modify the arguments of their opponents? I guess not, their brains have been quantized.

Did you forget to log into the right account to reply to me?

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

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news.ycombinator.com##:matches-path(/^\/(?:news)?$/) tr.athing:has(a:has-text(/AI|claude|A.I|harnesses|harness|OpenRouter|llm|vibecode|agi|deep learning|agent|TPU|GPT|DeepSeek|Anthropic/i)):xpath(. | following-sibling::tr[1]) I just have that in my Ublock Origin rules - it cuts the noise dramatically and if something gets through I just update the has(), it's a brute force approach. Ironically the only reason I saw t…

I think you should replace vibecode with vibecod so that you can catch vibecoding too. Also add "vibe cod" with a space. And add token, Gemini, OpenAI, llama

Oh it absolutely will have issues (for example it'd hit Maintenance in a title because of AI), it was something I did in a fit of pique because I opened HN one day and ~2/3 of the stories where about AI/LLM's - great if that is what you want, annoying as hell if you like the other stuff much more.

There are about a million ways to do it better but I can accept the odd false positive :).

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

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The Erlang front page was nice, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11

For reference, the glut of Erlang posts was due to pg posting "Why HN is slow lately": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 > it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang than women who create sites to get hired by Twitter

He's not wrong. It would still be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang, than the daily press releases or manufactured Twitter drama by OpenAI and Anthropic to generate hype for their IPO. We will just have to close an eye for the weekly point release of major AI models get 10 posts + associated reactions by thought leaders

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

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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 .

Ironically this thread became Yet Another AI Discussion. Really its just the agi takes that are the most useless and annoying.

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

#248

I 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.

I also experience this as a great loss, but honestly yes, I can't get excited about perfecting the craft of writing computer code now that there are AI systems that have done so. I'll always be sad about this! But the flip side is that I'm way more excited about what I can do with software, now that it's so much easier to write.

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

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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?

Evergreen comment TBH

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

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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.

Point taken, I probably file a lot of that away under "generic HN spam" (or maybe I've gotten so good at skimming Claude output that my eyes glaze over automatically now in response :P)
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