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

#391

All the stuff I post that I find interesting gets instantly flagged now. Not sure why.

They mention rules and automatic triggers etc. but I think it’s just broken.

Auto-moderation is broken and the human mods are preferential, inconsistent, often harsh, especially to new people or hobbyists, which is pretty discouraging.

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

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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. 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.

I don't think it's fair to blame AI just because people aren't prompting unique design elements into their vibe-coding.

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

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post #191

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> 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.

I have always used HN for consuming tech news. I was trying to say that these days, I really love following the developments in AI and among the most erudite audience for that can be found here, which is great.

You extrapolated that to assuming that AI news was my only use case.

Am saying that a lot of us like HN the way it is, and the way it has evolved organically into a firehose of AI news.

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

#394

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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.

Potentially more. Example, the data center articles don't match the AI filter, but they are certainly AI driven.

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

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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...

It must be some sort of denial playing into this

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

#397

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.

Reddit's /r/programming is very well moderated, and they specifically don't allow articles about AI, unless it's programming AI. You should check it out.

Sounds like their head is in the sand

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

#398

I noticed it as well but I don’t see a problem with it. I have spot-checked it at times and saw 5 to 8 of the top 10 posts about AI or directly adjacent. We are in an emergent, dynamic periodt. AI is revolutionary and will continue to get better. The world will change drastically because of it. This seems so obvious yet many will call it purely hype, no real value, etc. We are still in the incubation period, just lik…

A few years ago, it was all web3 and block chains. I was just last week reflecting on how long ago it was I'd seen anything in that category make it to the HN front page. I think a lot of it has to do with where the investment money is going. Interesting how times change and topics that people are passionate about reflect that. A simple truth with HN is that you don't have to click on every link. And if you go into t…

Do you genuinely think the current AI developments are only on the same tier as blockchain?

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

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I think you are looking for a different product. Reddit or another app that shows you a feed of things you are interested in is more in this vein

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

No, HN was never this product. You were just more on board with previous trends and for some reason you're not on board with AI
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