[jruohonen]

Some speculations: one of the few places left with mostly civil discussion, no algorithms, plain text, no unnecessary user interface distractions, etc.

[poly_morphis]

But why now and not a few years ago? The spike appears to have started at the beginning of this year which is most intriguing to me.

[mcgyver]

I went hunting for stats of topic trends on HN as the whole AI thing has gone bananas. Looking at the "ChatGPT" keyword chart [1] the volume is crazy and seems to line up time wise. It is a correlation but not sure if it is the right one.

[1] https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/keyword-analysis

[jruohonen]

No idea. Might be due to the AI hype? Or worse: bots?

[lmedinas]

plus /r/programming is pretty much dead, i guess people moved here.