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Everything on HN these days get downvoted to Oblivion. And people are heavily pushing ai and cloud products, the builder/hacker mindset is gone imho.
Do you need to be reminded that you’re on a “news” website run by a venture capital company? If this isn’t a “dead dove do not eat” situation then I truly do not know what is. You are just becoming disillusioned.
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“it’s a technology that i don’t like therefore its marketing, but I am apparently blind to how HN is a boring marketing outlet in every other respect, too.”
It's not that I dislike it. It's just the emptiness of conversations around it. Most discussion is not about the technology itself, or real takes, it's just "blablabla" It used to be more on point, like, 1 year ago? Even the Musk/Twitter times have gone now :D And that rich dude is even more richer now. "Money is a problem for those who don't have it", "Google declaring war on the web", "AI didn't invent slop, it sca…
For me, as someone just trying to learn, these two very recent Dwarkesh pod/lectures have begun to educate me a bit:
> Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/reiner-pope
> Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/eric-jang
However, I feel you. I wish that HN was a place where each of the links above had hundreds of upvotes, and really good discussion. The both deserve it.
Yeah, it's become such a boring AI marketing outlet.
HN is the news aggregator for an incubator / startup factory. The guy in charge of OpenAI used to run HN. With respect, what did you expect this place to be?
I'm hoping it's just a trend, but...I'm still waiting.
I would agree. While not quite what you’re looking for, I recently built a site, RNKFlow.com (Rank Flow), to bring in multiple tech/science feeds including HN and Product Hunt to pull in more interesting posts. There is a filter option so can search across all feeds and only see what you’re interested in. Also an alerting function where you can add keyword tags and get an email digest. And Categories to limit posts o…
Thanks for sharing! Definitely like the ability to filter and incorporating multiple sources although from what I could see stories are all from HN. One thing I will say though is the UI is challenging to use on mobile, would recommend the layout used for things like comments that you see on Harmonic/lobst.er. Very nice project keep it up!
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HN is the news aggregator for an incubator / startup factory. The guy in charge of OpenAI used to run HN. With respect, what did you expect this place to be?
Both of things were true 5 years ago, and yet 9/10 topics weren't about AI then. I'm hoping it's just a trend, but...I'm still waiting.
I first heard about GPT 1 here!
They key difference is that now AI is taking over -- why would 90% of all tech discussions be about it? AFAIK based on stats the only real economic growth globally right now is AI...
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