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Ask HN: Are you tired of all LLM posts on HN?
I'm something of an LLM researcher myself, but there's just too many LLM-related posts on HN imo. Almost anything with the word "LLM" in the title finds its way to the front page, while other actually programming/hacker-related posts get ignored.
- hnlurker22 2y agoWhat I'm tired of is OpenAI posts. I'm glad I'm seeing more Deepseek posts than OpenAI recently.
- lobo_tuerto 2y agoNo
- kkoncevicius 2y agoThere is a "hide" button which lets you hide certain posts from the front page. Maybe that's a good solution for your case?
- byyoung3 2y agoIt’s more that that they aren’t innovating or doing anything novel. Eg. “Tensorcracked is hiring to build document processing with LLMs” are fairly irritating
- mightypirate 2y ago[dead]
- tonyedgecombe 2y agoYes, although I’m more tired of the political stuff.
- saaaaaam 2y agoYes and no. A lot of them are low value, but there are some that have been hugely useful to me, either examples of how to do things, or tools that I now use regularly, or posts that have made me view problems I’m trying to solve through another lens. It’s a hot topic and so of course there are going to be a lot of posts. A few years back there were lots of blockchain posts. I think anyone could pick a topic to which they feel a certain level of antipathy and build a case that there are too many posts of that type.
- JohnKemeny 2y agoYes.
- endre 2y agoI'm more tired of off-topic, especially political posts.
- LinuxBender 2y agoI just skip most of them but if you wanted to filter them out uBlock Origin can do it with a couple rules. [1] Adjust as desired, e.g. LLM|GPT|openai|deepseek and so on... [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682879
- pmdulaney 2y agoI am indeed tired of them, but as retired engineer I have the luxury of living (in my imagination) in the pre-AI world. Being a programmer today is like being someone in the early 20th century who enjoyed the craft and mastery of being a cold type typesetter. You could continue to do letterpress printing even as wave after wave of new technologies came along, but something which was necessary and state of the art was transformed into either a boutique small business or a quaint hobby, like calligraphy.
- saaaaaam 2y agoI understand what you’re saying but while artisan printing and calligraphy are visible articulations of the craft, skill, care and attention that go into their making, do you think the same can be said for “artisan, human-crafted code”? It’s a genuine question, and whether your answer is yes or no I’d be interested to hear your opinion on why. My opinion is it’s unlikely that human-crafted code will have the same inherent value that human crafted typography does, for all sorts of reasons to do with the way we can consume physical artefacts of language vs the way we consume code. But I’ll also admit that my thinking in this - as regards code - is not particularly nuanced because I commission code rather than write it, so I’m interested in “does it do the job effectively” vs “is it inherently beautiful”.
- brudgers 2y agoTo the degree code is a form of self-expression then it can be artisanal. If it is an industrial artifact, then it can’t. I think craft as process is psychologically different from standards as professional identity.
- saaaaaam 2y agoThat’s an interesting point that I’d not considered. You’re essentially saying “code for code’s sake”, or “writing code in order to achieve a personal rather than industrial objective”, right? By which I guess we are talking “personal code projects that don’t necessarily serve a commercial end”?
- ksec 2y agoYes. There was a time Literally the first 2 page are mostly AI / LLM. I really wish all the post about FOSDEM would get instant front page listing. And then politics, there is a guidelines about no or little politics submissions on HN. There used to be a grey area where it is politics Relating to tech gets a pass. Somewhere along the line this was gone.
- rurban 2y agoI am just now at FOSDEM and I haven't found yet an interesting enough talk, compared to AI. Hopefully robotics tomorrow will be better. LLM's are certainly more interesting now, and extremely useful coding tools.
- dang 2y agoThe FOSDEM talks just haven't come out yet. Even https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42888436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42888436, which sounded promising, just links to an abstract (so far). Re the political stuff: this is a perennial question on HN but it hasn't changed in years. There's fluctuation in what shows up, of course, but the baseline hasn't changed, and in particular there's no longer-term trend making HN more political. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... if you (or anyone) want more explanation.
- ksec 2y agoHappy New Year Dang and Thank you for running the show.
- smrtinsert 2y agoAbsolutely not. Here to be informed and I can only take so many posts on react and alternatives
- Narishma 2y agoI systematically hide them since I'm not interested in them and they just pollute the main page, and you're right that they've become a bit excessive. Looking at my list of hidden posts, there are 26 AI-related items from the last 2 days alone. Edit: 10 minutes after this comment I checked the front page and had to hide another half-dozen posts.
- richardatlarge 2y agoIf you believe the HN vote system works, then this question boils down to: are people wrong to upvote LLM posts? What kind of question is that?
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- postepowanieadm 2y agoNo, not really.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoRelated: Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42827723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42827723
- tetris11 2y agoRelated (mine): Ask HN: Request to add an [AI] tag to posts? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42736691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42736691
- beachy 2y agoAu contraire, it's an incredible efficient way to gain high level insights into a new field that I just don't have time to dive into otherwise. And HN spans all the layers, from low level instruction set developments to the commercials practicalities of hosting your own AI. There is no comparable source of distilled wisdom that I know of. Of course if you just hate AI instinctively like my wife then yeah, I'm sure there's way too much AI content.
- blankx32 2y agoYes when it’s repeated hype, I expect better from HN.
- kingkongjaffa 2y agoNot really. I guess most people are at least thinking about what is possible, if not actively building things with LLM’s every day at this point. Certainly I get new ideas of what is possible and what experiments people are trying with them all the time just by lurking hackernews. As with all things you need to cut through the signal/noise.
- brudgers 2y agoI'm something of an LLM researcher myself I think opportunities to engage with the unfamiliar is one reason for HN’s stickiness among HNers. If LLM’s are familiar at a professional level, then internet status points aside, engaging with LLM’s at a “lay level” is probably not why HN sticks for you. Even if many other people are excited by them…particularly since endless-September is a feature not a bug on HN. Submitting content that interests you is the most reliable way to get content that interests you on HN. Good luck.
- doright 2y agoNot only here but now people as close as my family have heard of Deepseek through other channels and are telling me I need to get on top of the trends now in order to stay relevant in my industry, or I'll be left behind. The combination has sapped away any interest I might have had in pivoting to an AI career.
- alexgiann 2y ago[dead]
- jgb1984 2y agoI'm tired of LLM, full stop.
- SamPatt 2y agoNo. I find them - and the broader societal changes around their emergence - the most fascinating thing happening in tech at the moment. I'm old enough to have watched the internet become taken from granted despite how fundamentally it changed our lives. Now, I'll watch humanity create intelligence on demand, transform our lives again, and take that for granted, too. This isn't bad, either. It feels like true progress for people to become bored with things that would have astonished us only a few years ago.
- matrix87 2y agoafter a certain point about 6 months ago, I made a ublock origin filter that excludes all of those posts, just got too annoying for me personally
- asdefghyk 2y agoLLM posts I just skip However I'm tired of another posting type , fortunately they just about always end up dead
- CRConrad 2y agoYes, I am -- but, admittedly, not only on HN. There's far too much of that stuff everywhere on the Internet nowadays. So, OK, to the extent that HN is supposed to be a reflection of the larger 'Net... But is it, really? I'd say not: It's supposed to separate the wheat from the chaff. And there's too much "AI" / LLM stuff, both elsewhere and here, for it all to be wheat. (Side note on usage: Dunno whether OP is a native English speaker or not, but I think I would have put that as "Are you tired of all the LLM posts on HN?" Yes, it's only a tiny definite article -- but idiomatically, it changes the meaning from an absolute "Are you tired of each and every LLM post on HN?" to a more general-collective "Are you tired of the huge amount of LLM posts on HN?". And isn't that really what we're tired of? There might still be some few of them we could tolerate.)
- marssaxman 2y agoYes, to an extent; but I've seen enough hype cycles come and go not to be too worried about it. A few years ago I was tired of all the blockchain posts, and a few years before that I was tired of everything being about the cloud; in a few more years to come I am sure I will be tired of seemingly everything on HN being about whatever the next obsession is.
- tonymet 2y agoyes because the news is incremental
- tntxtnt 2y agoYes, there is little to no major breakthroughs why keep posting them? Like wow this AI can run 5% better than the last one, jump from 68/100 score to 71/100 score because it uses 100% more GPU power, like, ok?
- seifbenayed1992 2y agoTired of LLM wrapper Saas
- atleastoptimal 2y agoGet ready for the rest of 2025, as this is the least we'll be talking about LLM's (or genAI for that matter) for the rest of the year and likely this tech epoch
- nathanaldensr 2y agoBoth LLM and "Gronald Grumpf raaawwwr!" rage posts. At least the former are actually tech-related. HN absolutely sucks right now. It's nearing r/politics levels of suckage.
- serverlessmania 2y agoNO!
- wruza 2y agoPosts no. Comments yes. Especially comments on productivity boosts and outright lies when someone “builds a few side projects in the last month with AI”. It feels either like a sponsored roleplay or a competence level where building a jsx form is a side project.
- jedberg 2y agoA few years ago, many posts were blockchain/nft related. LLM is the new hotness. It’ll fade as the tech consolidates and becomes commodity.
- t0bia_s 2y agoElon related posts are something that I completely ignore.
- dazzaji 2y agoNope. Kept them coming!