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

469 points bookofjoe | 2 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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ksec ◴[15 Jul 25 17:11 UTC] No.44573458[source]▶
People who are a little late to the site may not know there was a time on HN where Erlang has even more frontage submission than the best of AI / LLM.

Ruby Rails, Postgres, SQLite, Rust, etc. They all have their moments and I dont think LLM right now is as overwhelming as any other hyped moments. Certainly not Erlang.

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1. thm ◴[15 Jul 25 17:18 UTC] No.44573551[source]▶
Yes, but unlike AI & Crypto, Erlang came with little grift, slop and Show HN spam.
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2. Karrot_Kream ◴[15 Jul 25 17:50 UTC] No.44573918[source]▶
The atmosphere on the site was very different then. There was plenty of Erlang vaporware and lots of "how to grow your startup" growth spam which wasn't called growth spam yet. The community was a lot less cynical then (though obviously the middlebrow dismissal [1] tendency of the site is quite old.)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726248