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Ask HN: HN was much more interesting a year ago

14 points fud101 | 1 comments | 08 Jul 25 13:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.239s | 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?

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actionfromafar ◴[08 Jul 25 13:41 UTC] No.44499874[source]▶
Someone has the actual stats but it feels like there are 3 big categories:

Tech misused by the newly anointed US oligarchy - flagged

Self-promotional spam - flagged

Bland AI stuff - not flagged

Result - bland AI HN.

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toomuchtodo ◴[08 Jul 25 13:50 UTC] No.44499969[source]▶
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484996

from Data on AI-related Show HN posts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463249 - July 2025

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actionfromafar ◴[08 Jul 25 15:02 UTC] No.44500656[source]▶
But how do I search for "awful things the oligarchy does"?
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1. toomuchtodo ◴[08 Jul 25 15:11 UTC] No.44500764[source]▶
https://news.ycombinator.com/active

https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals

(llms are likely your friend for classification, emit output somewhere outside of the control of the forum)