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i always thought there were two reasons for AI interest on HN. 1. since AI has captured the imagination of capitalists and they think this is the next industrial revolution, they gotta be in it to win it. combined with the fact that i believe most people here are wealthy or at least aspirationally so, that explained half of it. 2. the other half is that AI as a tech is interesting from a mathematical and compsci poin…
News at Y Combinator used to be my preferred reading diversion: reading interesting technical stories, debates on political topics, learning things, my comfort food of the same topics repeating the same arguments over the span of a decade. Now it’s that but also 65% AI doomscrolling.
Oddly I made an extension* to use the site more the way I wanted and now I find it a little easier to get a higher SNR past the front page and am enjoying that. I didn't really get past post rank 60 for two decades and now generally get much further.
*(It's basically vim-keys support for basically two functions. A function to "highlight" stories/comment threads I think will be promising and then hide function for the rest.)