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State of Show HN: 2025

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Re: State of Show HN: 2025

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

clktmr wrote: post #19

The advent of coding agents killed Hacker News to some degree for me. Before I could always come here to get a pause from the hype, scandal and bait. Top comments were usually insightful; I really had this feeling to learn while browsing the feed. Today every brainfart about AI makes it to the frontpage. I know this sounds very dismissive, but most pieces really have no substance at all. The good content is still the…

I'm just going to wait it out, as these trends come and go; before AI it was Rust, before Rust it was IoT, before IoT it was big data, crypto was weaved through it, etc.

I'm sure someone's done the numbers on HN trending topics over time aaand yup http://varianceexplained.org/r/hn-trends//.

Re: State of Show HN: 2025

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Post by jjgreen »

elliotbnvl wrote: post #29
discreteevent wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A project was one of the easiest ways to evaluate a stranger. It was a great bullshit detector. If they can make something like this then they are probably someone with ability and experience and so the rest of what they have to say is probably worth listening to. But I also agree with the parent. HN seems to be flooded with hustle and rubbish since AI has taken off. It's eternal LLMber.

The phrase "eternal LLMber" saddens and scares me in equal measure.

As good poetry should.

Re: State of Show HN: 2025

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Post by swyx »

kianN wrote: post #8
Scipio_Afri wrote: post #6

Great. Do you have any details on how you produced this? The "reproducible code" isn't really reproducible. The "hierarchical topic model" that you mentioned - which model was used?

The code provided is to reproduce the analytical results from the annotated data; my impression is that you're more interested in the details of the annotation process than running into an issue with that code? My company's core technology extends topic models to enable arbitrary hierarchical graphs, with additional branches beyond the topic and word branch. We expose those annotations in a SQL interface. It's an alt…

ha, great way to plug your tech. upvoting

Re: State of Show HN: 2025

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Post by mghackerlady »

discreteevent wrote: post #22
bdcravens wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally I don't care about what news articles end up on the front page - it's AI now, but there have been other trends in the past that did the same. The bigger problem is the effect that it's had on "Show HN" postings, which in the past were things you could depend on were built by the person submitting it. That's why those posts tended to be more strongly moderated, because they often were seen as attacks on the…

A project was one of the easiest ways to evaluate a stranger. It was a great bullshit detector. If they can make something like this then they are probably someone with ability and experience and so the rest of what they have to say is probably worth listening to. But I also agree with the parent. HN seems to be flooded with hustle and rubbish since AI has taken off. It's eternal LLMber.

I wonder if the marketing/hustlebros who only value our art as a "get rich quick scheme" (IE: the people pushing "Learn to 'code' (I hate the term 'coding')and half the new faces from india) learnt about Show HN and decided to ruin something good by making a linkedin post about "how great of a marketing avenue" we are and the vibecoded slop pushers listened in full force because they know nothing about our industry and thus don't know how valuable a non-salesy place to talk trade is

Re: State of Show HN: 2025

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Post by dvaun »

vessenes wrote: post #30
dvaun wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pre-2020 had far more informative posts and discussions. While we still have decent conversations post-covid, the quality has slid downhill somewhat.

Every few years I get to thinking I want to do some research on this and then maybe make a combo karma age filter, and then I go read some posts from 2017 and I think “it was better, but I don’t know if it was that much better.” Excepting the last year - things see dark for a lot of users here in the last year.

Fair point. Rose-tinted glasses and all.
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