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It's getting to be too much. Has anything else ever dominated HN's front page before?

by cactusplant7374 4y ago

derwiki 4y ago
SVB collapse last week, SBF earlier this year, death of Steve Jobs
wahnfrieden 4y ago
you want technology and automation practices to remain stagnant or incremental in technology fields?
- cactusplant7374 4y ago
  I already think they are stagnant but I don't see what that has to do with HN. For every story posted here there are probably 100+ projects we don't see. If your only source of information is HN you're missing out on 99% of the projects.
speedgoose 4y ago
Not really, but I can't think about any bigger technology transition in the IT world since the rise of Internet.
- riku_iki 4y ago
  I think smartphones, google produced more impact. Chatgpt impact is still unproven. Many cute demos but no much businesses and products created.
  - pzo 4y ago
    But before iPhone there were other smartphones and before google was altavista. We might still be in altavista phase but I think even if ChatGPT won’t be a leader 5 years later, 10 years from now will look back at LLM having the same big impact as smartphones and search engines
    - riku_iki 4y ago
      > 10 years from now will look back at LLM having the same big impact as smartphones and search engines that's hypothesis. So far I see high chances of internet to be flooded with junk autogenerated text with hallucinations and code bases be polluted with buggy unmaintainable auto-generated code, and businesses spend significant money on products which goal is to detect autogenerated content.
  - Workaccount2 4y ago
    >Many cute demos but no much businesses and products created. I can vouch that my department will be running a bit smoother in a few weeks once I get a chance to modernize our testing setup with the help of gpt4. I can write python but terribly and the need is so sparse that every time I have to go relearn a bunch of shit. But having a go with GPT4 it seems capable enough to quickly rewrite all our basic procedures that have been done on an ancient computer running a long deprecated program (with the scripts written in a long dead language). It causes us a lot of headache, but never enough at once that I can justify dropping everything for a week or two and respining it with python (and even adding network monitoring!)
thlabbe 4y ago
... may I dare "javascript" after firsts jQuery releases ?
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dang 4y ago
You got a lol out of me with that one, but I'll take it as a sign that we might be doing a partly reasonable job of mitigating this when it happens. One classic case from a decade ago: Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932645 - June 2013 (155 comments) e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-06-22 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-06-22 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-06-23 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-06-23
- whatshisface 4y ago
  Unfortunately, the public only agrees to forget things that would be good for them to remember. Since this is going to be bad for a lot of people, it's definitely here to stay.
  - dang 4y ago
    We can forget some bad things too!
- renewiltord 4y ago
  I remember that. It was my first thought. This userscript blocking snowdenposts got wiped from the list of posts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5929494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5929494 and you couldn't find it on HN or AskHN.
  - dang 4y ago
    That one fell in rank because it was flagged by users at the time.
    - renewiltord 4y ago
      Right, not over administrative action, just that despite there being lots of people who liked it, the majority usually wants this content.
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amelius 4y ago
No. The iPhone or anything Apple made fades in comparison.
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skeaker 4y ago
The front page almost always had at least a few articles about some cryptocurrency for months just this last year.

It's getting to be too much. Has anything else ever dominated HN's front page before?

derwiki 4y ago

SVB collapse last week, SBF earlier this year, death of Steve Jobs

wahnfrieden 4y ago

you want technology and automation practices to remain stagnant or incremental in technology fields?

cactusplant7374 4y ago
I already think they are stagnant but I don't see what that has to do with HN. For every story posted here there are probably 100+ projects we don't see. If your only source of information is HN you're missing out on 99% of the projects.

speedgoose 4y ago

Not really, but I can't think about any bigger technology transition in the IT world since the rise of Internet.

riku_iki 4y ago
I think smartphones, google produced more impact. Chatgpt impact is still unproven. Many cute demos but no much businesses and products created.
- pzo 4y ago
  But before iPhone there were other smartphones and before google was altavista. We might still be in altavista phase but I think even if ChatGPT won’t be a leader 5 years later, 10 years from now will look back at LLM having the same big impact as smartphones and search engines
  - riku_iki 4y ago
    > 10 years from now will look back at LLM having the same big impact as smartphones and search engines that's hypothesis. So far I see high chances of internet to be flooded with junk autogenerated text with hallucinations and code bases be polluted with buggy unmaintainable auto-generated code, and businesses spend significant money on products which goal is to detect autogenerated content.
- Workaccount2 4y ago
  >Many cute demos but no much businesses and products created. I can vouch that my department will be running a bit smoother in a few weeks once I get a chance to modernize our testing setup with the help of gpt4. I can write python but terribly and the need is so sparse that every time I have to go relearn a bunch of shit. But having a go with GPT4 it seems capable enough to quickly rewrite all our basic procedures that have been done on an ancient computer running a long deprecated program (with the scripts written in a long dead language). It causes us a lot of headache, but never enough at once that I can justify dropping everything for a week or two and respining it with python (and even adding network monitoring!)

thlabbe 4y ago

... may I dare "javascript" after firsts jQuery releases ?

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dang 4y ago

You got a lol out of me with that one, but I'll take it as a sign that we might be doing a partly reasonable job of mitigating this when it happens. One classic case from a decade ago: Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932645 - June 2013 (155 comments) e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-06-22 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-06-22 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-06-23 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-06-23

whatshisface 4y ago
Unfortunately, the public only agrees to forget things that would be good for them to remember. Since this is going to be bad for a lot of people, it's definitely here to stay.
- dang 4y ago
  We can forget some bad things too!
renewiltord 4y ago
I remember that. It was my first thought. This userscript blocking snowdenposts got wiped from the list of posts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5929494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5929494 and you couldn't find it on HN or AskHN.
- dang 4y ago
  That one fell in rank because it was flagged by users at the time.
  - renewiltord 4y ago
    Right, not over administrative action, just that despite there being lots of people who liked it, the majority usually wants this content.
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amelius 4y ago

No. The iPhone or anything Apple made fades in comparison.

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skeaker 4y ago

The front page almost always had at least a few articles about some cryptocurrency for months just this last year.