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14 points fud101 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.241s | source

If you click on 'past' you can choose a year back and the newsfeed is filled with all kinds of interesting and wonderful posts.

These days all you'll find are rehashed to death AI talking points but even a year ago, things were far better. What happened?

1. PaulHoule ◴[] No.44499811[source]
I was there long ago

https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/

The thing is that I don't really stand by that article and didn't really stand by it two years later because things really changed. When I wrote that there had been an Apple conference that I thought was particularly boring, today the Apple obsession is tamed and Apple news interests me more (and Apple fanboys turned from being uncritical to talking like one of those "Why X Sucks" videos that are big on Youtube, where X could be a fast food chain, video game studio, ...)

Looking at the list of hosts there I note that people still post articles from The New York Times despite them hardly ever frontpaging. I think phys.org (ScienceX) wasn't a thing back then, there was a time I thought I was the main booster (like I am for https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=coindesk.com) but it's a big source that many people post from and others complain about. (YOShInOn and I short circuit it and post the original paper if it is open access as much as we can)

BTW, I count four articles about AI on the front page right now, it's not like it is totally overrun.