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When did AI take over Hacker News?

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Re: When did AI take over Hacker News?

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Post by j45 »

It's the theme of the year. Building each year. Going back historically when Social media apps were the craze, or mobile apps were HN reflected what VCs typically were looking to invest in.

Re: When did AI take over Hacker News?

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Post by roxolotl »

This is cool data but I’d love to see how this AI boom compares to the big data AI boom of 2015-2018 or so. There were a lot of places calling themselves AI for no reason. Lots of anxiety that no one but data scientists would have jobs in the future.

It’s hard to tell how total that was compared to today. Of course the amount of money involved is way higher so I’d expect it to not be as large but expanding the data set a bit could be interesting to see if there’s waves of comments or not.

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Post by georgel »

j45 wrote: post #3

It's the theme of the year. Building each year. Going back historically when Social media apps were the craze, or mobile apps were HN reflected what VCs typically were looking to invest in.

Don't forget the barrage of JS frameworks that were talked about daily.

Re: When did AI take over Hacker News?

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Post by rising-sky »

What I found insightful about this article was the framing of another article cited.

> " This pretty negative post topping Hacker News last month sparked these questions, and I decided to find some answers, of course, using AI"

The pretty negative post cited is https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/. I went ahead to read it, and found it, imo, fair. It's not making any direct pretty negative claims about AI, although it's clear the author has concerns. But the thrust is inviting the reader to not fall into the trap of the current framing by proponents of AI, rather questioning first if the future being peddled is actually what we want. Seems a fair question to ask if you're unsure?

I got concerned that this is framed as "pretty negative post", and it impacted my read of the rest of this author's article

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