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Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

465 points bookofjoe | 3 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.321s | 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.

1. qmmmur ◴[15 Jul 25 15:29 UTC] No.44572206[source]▶
It is reducing my desire to read this site. I don't have anything against the subject matter necessarily, and sometimes it can be interesting, but in large parts it is attracting very low quality discussions and content about vibe coding X product.
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2. conductr ◴[15 Jul 25 20:19 UTC] No.44575405[source]▶
I feel it's to generic in application to be interesting to a broad audience like HN. Some things I like because I have interest in the problem space and am interested in how they applied AI to it. But most things I'm not even interested in the problem space and so could care less how they applied AI to it.
3. dang ◴[15 Jul 25 22:03 UTC] No.44576302[source]▶
Can you link to some specific examples of low-quality discussions?

As with any Major Ongoing Topic on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), the goal is to reserve frontpage space for the higher-quality stories and try to downweight the follow-ups and low-quality ones. We can't do this perfectly, of course, but we try.