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

467 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. conductr ◴[15 Jul 25 20:01 UTC] No.44575245[source]▶
I've been here a while and this is certainly more, prolonged, and has no end in sight compared to most other hype cycles we've experienced.

It's also exceedingly generic such that AI isn't really a topic, it's an entire classification or maybe domain to steal from the animal kingdom hierarchy.

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2. seydor ◴[15 Jul 25 20:32 UTC] No.44575520[source]▶
to be fair, AI is replacing all computers so talking e.g. about languages is believed to be soon obsolete.

I would like to see more nuanced and interesting articles about AI though. Right now it's all about VCs measuring the size of their investments and the politics of alleged superstar programmers.