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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 latexr »

flexagoon wrote: post #221
otherayden wrote: post #126

Earlier 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.

tildes.net is also great, though it's not just for tech stuff

Thank you for that recommendation. I find the website hard to read¹, but the submissions themselves are as a whole much more interesting² than any HN homepage in the past year.

¹ But I can do something about that, as opposed to the submissions as a whole.

² Even if one of them is about someone’s son pooping in the toilet.

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

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Post by Kwpolska »

execat wrote: post #34
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 so refreshing. Almost everything in top/new/best is an interesting read. Either I don't know anything about the topic ("...the spanning tree protocol") or am seriously interested in the topic ("Remembering Hong Kong", "Automattic's board forces CEO..."). None of these made to frontpage over the last two days AFAIK.

(The Automattic story did make it to the front page.)

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

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Post by flexagoon »

otherayden wrote: post #118
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

Thank you for plugging my site :)

Thanks for making it! Saw it on FMHY and have been using it since then

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

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Post by ilamont »

To see how fast hype cycles can die, check out the NFT archive on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=NFT

Top stories (critical and otherwise) were upvoted hundreds of times 4-5 years ago and had hundreds of comments. Sort by the past year, and no story has more than 9 points. NFTS have effectively disappeared from HN's front page.

AI is a different beast ... the tech and concepts have true value. But we may see the term "AI" start to fade as new terminology and companies and concepts rise to the fore ... the Sons/Daughters of AI.

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

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Post by lukan »

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…

The difference between ruby, rust or react or whatever hyped technology was ruling the frontpage in the past, none of them transformed programming the way AI did and still does.

Whether I programmed in this or that framework did not matter so much, as I was still typing.

Now I (allmost) don't code anymore. That is a pretty big change and I still try to cope with it and I suspect many who hate AI, just don't want to face this new reality. But it really is not just another technology where the hype will fade out and it becomes forgotten. It becomes part of the standard and we are still figuring out how. So more diverse submission on the front page would be nice, but AI just is what keeps most programmer busy these days, whether they like it or not. So naturally there is interest. It became existential.

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Post by pibaker »

ChickeNES wrote: post #218
embedding-shape wrote: post #45

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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.

> 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. I really don't understand anyone who can say something like this with a straight face. Comparing AI to Bootstrap? I...

Both have sped up front end development at the cost of making half of the internet look the same.
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