Why is news.ycombinator still relevant and devs keep coming back to it?

[ronker-con]

Agents are taking over, llm chat apps can provide information with right prompts, then why does still news.ycombinator the goto page for devs to keep coming back to ?

[uberman]

I come back because I am interested in what people think today about interesting topics that I might not even know exist. I don't chat casually with AI as I am not interested in an echo chamber of what I might have found interesting when the model was trained 6 months ago.

[al_borland]

I don’t see how an LLM is a replacement for HN. Right now the top post is about hacking a computer with a speaker. This is not something I’ve ever thought about. How would I know to ask an LLM if this is a thing?

HN surfaces things that I don’t know I don’t know. That will always be a fundamental blind spot for any chat based interface.

[dtagames]

Because smart people come here to read and write original thoughts and share things they find interesting.

There are not nearly enough places in the world where that happens.

[yogorenapan]

I don't know what I don't know. It's the randomness of HN that has let me find new topics to learn about

[gladiatr72]

The soothing, orange header.

[ronker-con]

Ha.. it's got a bling to it.