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by thelastgallon 58 days ago
Yes, a lot of posts on HN are also about AI. Used to have more variety.
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There is a bright side, though: At least we’ve stopped talking about crypto.
There was also 15 "why I replaced tredge.Js with slametic.js" posts a day.
When the AI bubble pops, we’re all going back to talking crypto.
very exciting time in crypto with NIST finally standardizing a bunch of pq stuff! (that's what we're going to be talking about, right???)
Naw, in another five minutes it’ll be something different. But it will be about crypto.
What's especially frustrating is that the posts about AI are also disproportionately written by AI. I can sort of understand that people who are very enthusiastic about LLMs also use them for blogging. But the most bizarre part is that a lot of anti-AI opinion pieces are LLM-generated too. Either cynical click-sploitation or extreme hypocrisy.
At this point it's easiest to just ignore and/or flag everything with an .ai domain.
They're now paying and training people to produce more AI doom slop, so it's only going to get worse: https://www.plzdontkillus.com/
Reddit's /r/programming banned all AI related posts temporarily. And I must admit, it made the place more interesting.

Maybe have AI Tuesdays, where you only post AI crap every Tuesday?

For me the biggest loss was the explore tabs on github, particularly the trending repositories. You used to be able to go there and find a trendy project or two.

Nowadays, either it is something with an outstanding presentation like copyparty, or it's all just AI and AI serving schlock.

I filtered out most of the buzzwords in my RSS reader and HN has gone back to being semi-enjoyable.
Please share your prompt.
It doesn't have to be that way. Filter it out! https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude
It's shocking how few articles remain after draining the AI cesspit.