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

469 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.312s | 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]▶
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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delusional ◴[15 Jul 25 15:08 UTC] No.44571938[source]▶
> 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.

A bigger impact for me has been the number of mentions of AI in the comments. It's not just that a large part of the front page is dominated by LLM hype posts, it's that every single post has a least one guy near the top somehow bringing AI into the discussion. I don't even care if it's "AI will fix this" or "haha, AI sucks at this too". I just don't want to hear anything about AI ever again.

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probably_wrong ◴[15 Jul 25 15:12 UTC] No.44572003[source]▶
I noted that too, to the point where I'm suspecting that "that guy" (obviously not just one user) is being paid to do so.

I've started downvoting them, the same way I always downvote "I fed this to an LLM and here's what it spat out".

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1. delusional ◴[15 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44572668[source]▶
I have had that same thought when I see them as one of the first comments on a post. I can't do anything with that suspicion, how would I prove it, but it's definitely there.