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

468 points bookofjoe | 5 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.902s | 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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fuzzythinker ◴[15 Jul 25 18:26 UTC] No.44574337[source]▶
That was very different. Somehow the entire front page was Erlang, but it was only for a day or 2. AI is different from that. It's like a good 40-50% of the posts for at least a year or more, and I don't see it going away anytime soon. It's also different from web3/etc. as those were at most 10% of the posts and most of us can see it's just hype.

I'm not fighting for a split/fork, just stating the fact that it's nothing compared to Erlang.

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1. endtime ◴[15 Jul 25 18:47 UTC] No.44574523[source]▶
IIRC that was a deliberate campaign to make the site unattractive to a spate of non-technical folks who had apparently all simultaneously discovered it.
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2. waterhouse ◴[15 Jul 25 19:40 UTC] No.44575026[source]▶
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

"We've had a huge spike in traffic lately, from roughly 24k daily uniques to 33k. This is a result of being mentioned on more mainstream sites [...] You can help the spike subside by making HN look extra boring. For the next couple days it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang [...]"

"Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine."

Also some fun comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512178

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3. ModernMech ◴[15 Jul 25 21:57 UTC] No.44576241[source]▶
lol ask a community of autists for more posts about the innards of Erlang, don't be surprised when you get posts about the innards of Erlang.
4. flakiness ◴[15 Jul 25 22:43 UTC] No.44576676[source]▶
This is a great little anthropology work of you. Thanks for taking time to find this out!
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5. yen223 ◴[15 Jul 25 23:27 UTC] No.44576999{3}[source]▶
Here's what the frontpage looked like on the day of Erlang:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11