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

    465 points bookofjoe | 11 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom

    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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    antonymoose ◴[15 Jul 25 17:16 UTC] No.44573519[source]▶
    It all depends if you care about the tech side of HN or the startup side of HN. I love the tech articles above all else and could easily do without the general trend fluff.

    With that said, I don’t find the AI posts nearly as bad as the Blockchain era.

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    1. devmor ◴[15 Jul 25 17:56 UTC] No.44573990[source]▶
    As annoyed as I am with the constant deluge of uninteresting AI/LLM articles, I would much rather see a split between tech and startup news. I think that's a lasting and useful distinction.
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    2. Karrot_Kream ◴[15 Jul 25 18:19 UTC] No.44574249[source]▶
    Isn't topical subcommunities just Reddit?
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    3. sshine ◴[15 Jul 25 18:38 UTC] No.44574429[source]▶
    Lobste.rs provides that distinction.
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    4. 201984 ◴[15 Jul 25 18:43 UTC] No.44574487[source]▶
    And it's invite-only, so it's hardly an alternative.
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    5. MarceColl ◴[15 Jul 25 18:48 UTC] No.44574536{3}[source]▶
    well, it takes around 20 minutes to get an invite, so hardly a problem if you prefer only tech articles
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    6. zahlman ◴[15 Jul 25 19:04 UTC] No.44574703[source]▶
    Personally, I'm more interested in the think-pieces than the actual news.

    (And I could very much do without the content that revolves around US politics. Even if it draws me in sometimes.)

    7. sugarpimpdorsey ◴[15 Jul 25 19:24 UTC] No.44574880[source]▶
    A socially awkward speakeasy with deranged moderation?

    Where do I sign up?

    A forum that is exclusionary-by-design has already failed.

    8. aydyn ◴[15 Jul 25 19:53 UTC] No.44575155[source]▶
    The userbase overlap is probably > 50%. To many people HN is just another subreddit.
    9. iib ◴[15 Jul 25 20:00 UTC] No.44575225{4}[source]▶
    How exactly does it take 20 minutes to get an invite? I have not tried it, but I can't see how that would be easy.
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    10. earnestinger ◴[15 Jul 25 21:00 UTC] No.44575761{5}[source]▶
    No idea. Read only is good enough.
    11. MarceColl ◴[15 Jul 25 22:41 UTC] No.44576653{5}[source]▶
    I got mine in about that time, joined their IRC and asked for an invite, someone DM'd me, asked me a couple of questions and sent me the invite. This was about 7 years ago when there as a lot less people, so I imagine it should be easier now.