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467 points bookofjoe | 2 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.425s | source

I would very much like to enjoy HN the way I did years ago, as a place where I'd discover things that I never otherwise would have come across.

The increasing AI/LLM domination of the site has made it much less appealing to me.

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PaulHoule ◴[15 Jul 25 14:57 UTC] No.44571823[source]▶

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This post is turning up at least every other day. The last few times my reply was "AI is 4/30 or 5/30 of the front page, it's not such a big deal", but today it is 9/30.

I am wondering what the ratio is for VC and angel dealflow in the valley right now.

Hanging out on the "new" page and upvoting quality non-AI articles is an effective method of resistance.

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1. freedomben ◴[15 Jul 25 15:11 UTC] No.44571979[source]▶

>>44571823 #

> Hanging out on the "new" page and upvoting quality non-AI articles is an effective method of resistance.

Fully agree, and I in fact am finding that I actually find more stories I'm interested in that way than looking at the front page. For whatever reason, I'm increasingly getting out of sync (interests-wise) with broader HN. So many stories I think are great HN material (and would have been a few years ago) languish with almost no activity.

So there are two reasons IMHO to browse new: Surface better stories to front page for engagement, and find better stories

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2. authorfly ◴[15 Jul 25 17:04 UTC] No.44573384[source]▶

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As you age your interests and curiosity change, in ways you often don't see until later.

Very common in computer science contexts. Young undergraduates always pick up the new tech and make something that seems alien and wrong first. It's not even the masters students.

Possibly the same Kiro - Agentic IDE post would have been as interesting to you as the launch of Atom or something related to VS Code, etc.

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