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

469 points bookofjoe | 8 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 1.534s | 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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Lerc ◴[15 Jul 25 15:10 UTC] No.44571964[source]▶
I have seen this question asked on subreddits, Not about AI, but for other topics that some people dislike.

They always seem to take the form of "Should we divide this group into A and B, A stays here and B goes over there and that way everybody is happy"

Invariably the person who proposes this wants to remain in group A and will not be a participant in group B.

To me this seems like the subtext is "Those people are not welcome here, they are not like us. It's not like we have anything against them, we just don't want them ramming it down our throats"

Anyone is free to make a website with whatever content they want, they can invite people to it and grow your own community. Directing a community to divide to remove an element you dislike is an attempt to appropriate the established community.

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1. ryandrake ◴[15 Jul 25 18:12 UTC] No.44574179[source]▶
> To me this seems like the subtext is "Those people are not welcome here, they are not like us. It's not like we have anything against them, we just don't want them ramming it down our throats"

I am truly tired of AI being rammed down my throat, not just via the tech news, but in article content (slop), in un-asked-for tech product features, and at my own tech job. The solution is not to divide the community and make people unwelcome, but to provide at least some minimal set of filters and ways to opt out of the hype frenzy. I don't want people to feel unwelcome, but I do wish there was a way to turn the AI firehose off.

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2. op00to ◴[15 Jul 25 19:21 UTC] No.44574846[source]▶
Who’s forcing you to read the AI articles?
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3. dmbche ◴[15 Jul 25 20:16 UTC] No.44575389[source]▶
Some people come to HN for interesting articles, many lists exists if you want to know what I mean.

If, say, a third to two third of articles in any given frontpage, for multiple months to years, do not fit this description - can you see how one's ability to find what they are looking for gets hampered?

Like yes, you can grow nice flowers on the beautiful fertile soil there, it just sucks we need to get rid of these protected grasslands harboring endangered species on top of it.

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5. op00to ◴[15 Jul 25 23:09 UTC] No.44576879{3}[source]▶
Who are you to say whether an article is interesting to anyone else but yourself?
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6. ryandrake ◴[16 Jul 25 01:05 UTC] No.44577671{4}[source]▶
It’s not clear where you are trying to go with this aggressive line of questioning that puts words into other peoples mouths that they aren’t saying.
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7. op00to ◴[16 Jul 25 03:52 UTC] No.44578522{5}[source]▶
It only seems aggressive if you believe that HN somehow owes you the precise content you are seeking over whatever it’s delivering now.

If you don’t like the topic, don’t read it. No one’s forcing you to do so.

Don’t yuck someone else’s yum.

The internet’s a big place and life is short, spend your time reading stuff you like rather than bitching that you want things another way.

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8. dmbche ◴[16 Jul 25 09:15 UTC] No.44580255{6}[source]▶
Who yucked your yum and how?