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The overload of GenAI related postings on here almost makes me look with nostalgy at the period when most of the posts were about some SQLite optimisation/use-c

The overload of GenAI related postings on here almost makes me look with nostalgy at the period when most of the posts were about some SQLite optimisation/use-case/weird trick....

thm 1y ago
Eternal September
tra3 1y ago
Yes, please bring back the blockchain posts. /s <small>hmm, generative ai blockchain?...</small>
- threetonesun 1y ago
  We had Bored Ape, but what we really wanted was Infinite Monkeys.
explorigin 1y ago
Can I interest you in a new Javascript framework?
- dvh 1y ago
  Water found on Mars!
- hansmayer 1y ago
  Why yes, especially if it is "elegant", "easy to use" and of course "optimised for developer experience" :)
  - rglover 1y ago
    You may dig what I've built, then [1][2]. [1] https://cheatcode.co/joystick https://cheatcode.co/joystick [2] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick
    - bangertho 1y ago
      Woosh is my new JS framework. It flies high above the rest.
- faizshah 1y ago
  I liked the 2048 HN era: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=2048&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
  - hnlmorg 1y ago
    I’d forgotten about the 2048 era. That was indeed one of the better HN phases. Edit: that was 11 years ago?!? Wow.
fortyseven 1y ago
This is a bit of hyperbole. Step back and look at the list of articles on the front page. You're going to see a lot of different things. It's not the overwhelming flood of Gen AI content that you're saying here. We got one guy who wrote his own music player for iOS. We got this other guy who's optimizing is OCR code. Another article talks about infrared contact lenses. And yeah there's going to be more AI stuff than there used to be, because that's what's going on right now in the field. But it's far from the only thing. Not by a long shot. The only reason you and I are conversing in this AI adjacent thread is because we both clicked on the link. The only difference between us is that I was actually interested in what this article had to say, but you're clearly not. And that's completely fair! But you make it sound like you're starved for non-AI content when there's a whole wealth of it on the front page. C'mon.
- hansmayer 1y ago
  On a deeper level, the complaint is about the meaninglessness of those many posts. It is supposed to be revolutionary tech, but every week, every week we are bombarded with these vague and mostly it seems incremental "improvements". People who post this stuff should wait up a bit and let us know when there is a real breakthrough. Or when the VC investors stop pumping in on the order of 200B USD into the magic oracle industry,only to generate a total of 10B pre-tax income for all the major AI companies combined.
virtouspapaya 1y ago
In that era there were probably loads of people nostalgic about weird C memory use-cases not being talked about as much.

The overload of GenAI related postings on here almost makes me look with nostalgy at the period when most of the posts were about some SQLite optimisation/use-case/weird trick....

thm 1y ago

Eternal September

tra3 1y ago

Yes, please bring back the blockchain posts. /s <small>hmm, generative ai blockchain?...</small>

threetonesun 1y ago
We had Bored Ape, but what we really wanted was Infinite Monkeys.

explorigin 1y ago

Can I interest you in a new Javascript framework?

dvh 1y ago
Water found on Mars!
hansmayer 1y ago
Why yes, especially if it is "elegant", "easy to use" and of course "optimised for developer experience" :)
- rglover 1y ago
  You may dig what I've built, then [1][2]. [1] https://cheatcode.co/joystick https://cheatcode.co/joystick [2] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick
  - bangertho 1y ago
    Woosh is my new JS framework. It flies high above the rest.
faizshah 1y ago
I liked the 2048 HN era: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=2048&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- hnlmorg 1y ago
  I’d forgotten about the 2048 era. That was indeed one of the better HN phases. Edit: that was 11 years ago?!? Wow.

fortyseven 1y ago

This is a bit of hyperbole. Step back and look at the list of articles on the front page. You're going to see a lot of different things. It's not the overwhelming flood of Gen AI content that you're saying here. We got one guy who wrote his own music player for iOS. We got this other guy who's optimizing is OCR code. Another article talks about infrared contact lenses. And yeah there's going to be more AI stuff than there used to be, because that's what's going on right now in the field. But it's far from the only thing. Not by a long shot. The only reason you and I are conversing in this AI adjacent thread is because we both clicked on the link. The only difference between us is that I was actually interested in what this article had to say, but you're clearly not. And that's completely fair! But you make it sound like you're starved for non-AI content when there's a whole wealth of it on the front page. C'mon.

hansmayer 1y ago
On a deeper level, the complaint is about the meaninglessness of those many posts. It is supposed to be revolutionary tech, but every week, every week we are bombarded with these vague and mostly it seems incremental "improvements". People who post this stuff should wait up a bit and let us know when there is a real breakthrough. Or when the VC investors stop pumping in on the order of 200B USD into the magic oracle industry,only to generate a total of 10B pre-tax income for all the major AI companies combined.

virtouspapaya 1y ago

In that era there were probably loads of people nostalgic about weird C memory use-cases not being talked about as much.