[modeless]

HN doesn't seem interested in robotics generally. You'll see it from time to time but the vast majority of great stuff never makes it to the front page. It's a shame, especially considering (as you point out) the constant political stuff (both overt and subtle) that does make it on here.

[gessha]

It could be that polarizing threads end up more actively voted on compared to “cool stuff” threads. We’re not immune to social network effects after all.

[modeless]

Yeah, that's an issue only admins can address. I would prefer much more aggressive enforcement of the rules about politics, and maybe some rule changes.

[gessha]

I built a very crude app sourcing comments from the HN firehose, classifying them using Gemma 4 and a prompt made from the comment guidelines. It had some amusing results.

The app did a decent job at surfacing problematic comments that a mod can do something about.

It was cool to optimize llama-cpp arguments for throughput. During the slightly off-peak hours the post processing was pretty much real time. I suspect a second 3090 would’ve be enough for peak posting hours too.

[modeless]

Yes I think there's huge potential in this direction. Forum moderation could be made far more scalable this way. If I didn't have another project I was already working on I'd be trying it right now.