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Data on AI-related Show HN posts
- d00mB0t 1y agoRemember Map-Reduce and Quantum Computing?
- rfarley04 1y agoAnd blockchain. Should probably go back and compare how the frequency of those buzzwords (as a ratio of total posts) compare to AI
- School-Cotton 1y agoUnlike blockchain and quantum computing, AI is both (1) real, and (2) widely useful for something other than committing crimes.
- oblio 1y agoQuantum computing seems like useful tech that will happen, and I'm not sure what the crime angle is for it... People are designing quantum computing resistant cryptography, if that's what you mean.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoIf you view copyright violation as a crime, then AI is extremely good at it
- amlib 1y agoI don't think most people care much about the copyright violations (or at least they haven't though this trough properly), it's more about corporations taking even more control over information and knowledge at an unprecedented scale, sucking up virtually all of humanity's output in the last thousands of years and profiting from it without giving a cent back to society. Maybe you are fine with corporations doing that, but imagine now if instead of corporations they were an alien race doing all that to us, would you not be worried for our future and autonomy?
- teiferer 1y agoBlockchains are not real? Tell that to my neighbor who regularly uses bitcoin to send some money to some relative in some far away place. (I'm not arguing that that's a good idea. It's likely not. But it's pretty real for my neighbor.)
- oblio 1y agoMap reduce powers Google, so that's established tech. Quantum computing is progressing slowly but it's most likely going to be mainstream, yet too technical for the average person to care about it.
- bravesoul2 1y agoAI was also too technical. Until LLMs and prompt engineering mase it so everyone can play. Maybe QC will have a similar moment. Maybe not for decades though.
- paulsutter 1y agoMapreduce was a simple way to harness large clusters back in 2006 Today’s tools like Spanner are vastly more sophisticated, but were built by people who learned to work at petabyte scale developing in Mapreduce We’re getting better AI tools every month, and the best way to be ready for next year’s tools is to work with the tools we have now
- belter 1y agoI think you mean 4 in 5 are AI-related...
- robinson7d 1y agoDo you have numbers for that? The graph in the article says 21.31% by their analysis
- dgellow 1y agoHow many are written by Claude code or similar? I wouldn’t be surprised if it is the majority
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- busymom0 1y agoMeanwhile, unfortunately my non-AI Show HN didn't get any votes or comments and seemed to have not even displayed on the Show HN page. Not sure why :(
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- jedberg 1y agoYou have to get at least two upvotes I think to appear on the Show HN page (and have the title start with "Show HN: ")
- readthenotes1 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424537 If you add "not made with AI" you can get counted in the author's totals for AI generated stuff
- hdivider 1y agoI think it's partly because we all just have way too much to do. Every day. All day. And the harder you work, it seems the more you have to do. On top of cognitive processing of all the ambient events in our time, which is a heavy load just by itself. Most of the time, AI tools promise to be timesavers. So it's natural many folks look for shortcuts. We're simply overloaded, partly due to current situations generated by existing machine learning tools deployed elsewhere in the system.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoWho's pushing y'all/us to do do much work? Maybe that institution or society should take responsibility instead of putting the burden on the workers.
- zvorygin 1y agoI think society has never, does not, and probably will never work the way you suggest it should.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoNothing is ever ideal, but centuries of labor laws gets us in the right direction. A 4 day workweek would do wonders while still having plenty of work to be done. Your statement is also why I fear this supposed promise that "AI will do all the work, society won't need jobs!". I don't think we're getting this post-work utopia that tecunocrats love to promise.
- candiddevmike 1y agoDuring COVID, society worked this way with lots of compassion and empathy, but then it broke some people's minds and it has been downhill ever since.
- doug_durham 1y ago"y'all"??? Is this a 1970's episode of "Hee Haw"? This faux authenticity is annoying.
- jakelazaroff 1y agoTitle nit: the actual title says "less than half" but the title on HN says "> half" (more than half)
- stirfish 1y agoThank you, I thought it was talking about the > symbol for qoutes
- creativenolo 1y agoIt is a very confusing title that only gets more confusing when starting to read the article
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- 4b11b4 1y agothis inspires a HN viewer that uses an LLM given "dun want AI hype" to filter out AI related posts or a more complicated prompt to include "machine learning" or computer vision, etc or another method... such as filtering on tags is there a HN viewer with tags...? found this HN post from 2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904988
- mrweasel 1y agoI mean I wrote a small Firefox plugin that just removes the AI posts... I only saw this one because I was debugging as I tried to remove Apple Intelligence posts.
- FridgeSeal 1y agoIs your plugin public? Some friends and I were lamenting the AI-ification of HN, so is use anything that filtered it down in a heartbeat.
- mrweasel 1y agoNo, but here's the tiny bit of code I just use. Improve as you please. bad-ai.js const bad_words = [ " ai", "ai ", "a.i.", "openai", "llm", "agentic", "claude", "large language models", "apple intelligence" ] var elements = document.body.getElementsByClassName("titleline"); for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++){ var element = elements[i]; var text = element.children[0].text.toLowerCase(); bad_words.forEach(word => { if( text.indexOf(word) > -1 ){ console.log("Bad-AI remove: " + text) element.parentElement.parentElement.nextSibling.style.display = "none"; element.parentElement.parentElement.style.display = "none"; } }); } manifest.json { "manifest_version": 2, "name": "No-Hacker-AI", "version": "1.0", "description": "Hide stories on HackerNews, if they mention AI technologies.", "icons": { "96": "icons/bad-ai.png" }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["*://news.ycombinator.com/*"], "js": ["bad-ai.js"] } ] }
- shaldengeki 1y agoThis shows a huge surge starting in 2023. I see you're counting all .AI TLDs; how much is this responsible for the surge? I think .AI TLD registrations took off starting in 2023, and one thing I wonder is if prior to 2023 we're mostly missing real AI Show HN entries, and afterwards we're mostly catching them.
- authorfly 1y agoI think you're right. About 20-30% of product hunt products were AI in late 2022 for example, but very few of them then used .ai.
- jedberg 1y agoI'm surprised it's only 1 in 5 to be honest. That actually makes me happy. It means not everyone is trying to build the next AI thing. There's still innovation in other spaces.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoOne in 5 on a news site that covers pretty much all topics is extremely saturated, though. Also, 1 in 5 being talked about is different from what is actually getting funding.
- gxs 1y agoWho’s to say it’s saturated? I’d say you can only say saturated relative to the historical popularity of other topics on HN throughout the years. There’s no real golden rule here Like it or not AI is not only a huge trend, it really is a paradigm shift in all sorts of aspects Would be curious to see the breakdown of this statistic
- johnnyanmac 1y ago>Who’s to say it’s saturated? Well, you apparently just did. Saturation is indeed relative (or rather, on a spectrum with varying subjective lines). You can explain why it's saturated, but that still means it's saturated. >Like it or not AI is not only a huge trend, it really is a paradigm shift in all sorts of aspects Sure, so was fracking. I wasn't in this community back then, but I'd wager somehow we didn't have 1 in 5 articles about how much better society can drill oil.
- gxs 1y agoI don’t know why you felt compelled to reply with a “duh are you stupid” type of response, but if that’s just your style I guess that’s fine I was literally expressing curiosity and wondering what the frequency relative to past topics and trends is and totally open to it being actually saturated I didn’t define or explain what saturated is, I said it’d be good to see those stats - you don’t know the answer as you’re obviously conjecturing about fracking popularity quantified on HN but don’t actually know anything regarding those numbers (you might now after you go look them up to reply to this, nj) And fwiw hn includes a lot of article types but it’s obviously already slanted towards tech so if you don’t see how much closer ai is related to tech and why it’d be more popular than fracking then I don’t know what to tell you If anything, I should have noticed that they are talking about show HN because that does change things but I’d still be curious to see stats Like it’s not that serious I don’t know why you got so offended Either way, not interesting in engaging with some hn smart ass atm so have a good day and feel free to have the last word Last thing I’ll say is HN is so fickle, have no clue why I’m getting downvoted Sometimes I feel like it would be great if it were required to enter a reason
- mycall 1y agoSo which comments here are in the 20-percentile?
- visarga 1y agoThe good thing about it is that being part of such a community feeds creative impulses towards doing projects with AI. It keeps AI forefront in our mind. Happens with all other specialized communities, like r/classicalmusic
- johnnyanmac 1y agoWe're not a specialized community, though. And to be frank: the current landscape makes it hard to tell who's curious, and who just wants to appeal to investor money. So I'm skeptical of most AI projects posted here.
- gambiting 1y agoGood for who, exactly? I guess it's satire? >>Happens with all other specialized communities I don't recall HN being specialised in AI, but maybe I missed something.
- saubeidl 1y agoBut this used to not be an AI enthusiast community, and to be honest I don't care much for the fact it's becoming more of one. It's like posting your hardstyle remixes into /r/classicalmusic.
- Macha 1y agoHarder to do, but would also be interesting: How do posts where the point of the thing is to "be AI" do compared to posts that just mention AI as a tool used?
- winterrx 1y agoI first read the title as AI generated, and I wasn't surprised.
- paulddraper 1y agoI was curious the number. I would have guessed higher. AI is a seismic event for technology, venture investment, and eventually society.
- namuol 1y agoSeismic events for venture investment tend to be seismic events for the economy, and thus for society, whether or not the investments pay off as expected.
- ryandrake 1y ago> AI is a seismic event for technology, venture investment, and eventually society. I think this definitely remains to be seen. Might be, might not be. They were saying the same thing about the Segway.
- SoftTalker 1y agoMaybe after the VCs set fire to enough money my own dollars will be worth a little more.
- SpicyLemonZest 1y agoSegway sold about 6,000 units per year at a $5k price point, adding up to an ARR about 300 times lower than OpenAI. It's already a lot more real than the Segway ever was.
- paulddraper 1y agoThat’s such a ridiculous comparison in the current year. Segway sold at most 10k units in a year. ChatGPT currently has 77 million MAUs in the U.S.
- namuol 1y agoMeanwhile articles like this get flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44481964 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44481964 (Caveat; not sure this kind of flagging is a pattern) Link to the original article: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/chatgpt-psychosis-ai-therapy-chatbot-b2781202.html https://www.the-independent.com/tech/chatgpt-psychosis-ai-th...
- somewhereoutth 1y agoAs ever, it is the cover-up that is the real scandal.
- BrawnyBadger53 1y agoWeird to block this considering how on topic it is. Any insight as to why? Related to the article, are there actively updated benchmarks for plan recognition?
- namuol 1y agoI would love to see if there’s a pattern before making any hypotheses, but my go-to assumption is just run of the mill conflict of interest bias.
- timewizard 1y agoThere's billions upon billions of dollars on the table. I'm a simple man. I'd suggest overt manipulation.
- southernplaces7 1y agoNot weird really. On the one hand, you have a flagging policy that lets any random man-child with some specific bias and enough karma completely eliminate a post for whatever bullshit emotional reaction of their own, and at the same time, you have a bunch of people here who suffer from AI-fanboy derangement and hate to see any criticism of their fantasies about a glorious future in which current LLMs are just a hop away from making all things wonderful.
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- nubinetwork 1y agoFeels more than that
- nektro 1y agothat "ai show hns as % of total" got a jaw drop out of me. wow.
- sysmax 1y agoI don't see it as anything bad. LLMs are a interesting, alright. They can very quickly do a lot of mind-numbing work that used to be done by hand, and then they can stumble and produce total nonsense that no human being would even consider writing. And then you tweak the prompt in a weird way, and you're suddenly back in business. To me, it feels like studying a new physical phenomenon. Like when Nicola Tesla was playing around with coils and wires, eventually loading to the creation of an entire industry. Except, with LLMs, you don't need multi-million dollar equipment to play around with models. You can get pretty cool stuff done with a regular GPU, and even cooler if you use cloud. I would say, if you are not spending some spare time fiddling around with LLMs trying to get them do some of the work you would otherwise do by hand, you are missing out.
- azhenley 1y agoAnecdotal counter example: Maybe I’m just bad at writing about AI, but my AI-related blog posts rarely get traction on HN. In contrast, my random side projects that aren’t about AI get discussed here more than 50% of the time.
- ivape 1y agoHow hyperbolic are your titles?
- bravesoul2 1y agoAre you saying they need to be hyperbolic to get traction. There is some truth in that.
- bravesoul2 1y agoI had a quick look and it looks like the kind of stuff HN likes. There is a lot of luck when posting about what gets picked up. If 1 in 20 get traction though that's quite good (there are only so many slots and many posters)
- old_man_cato 1y agoIt's pretty important! You could make a case that there's not much else to talk about. I don't love that fact and I wish it would go away but when billionaires are talking about trying to build something that will replace everyone, that's kind of a big topic!
- donperignon 1y agoYeah i am so sick and tired. It was so refreshing to read HN and always find something interesting, now its tiresome, AI marketing everywhere and comments from people that doesn't even like to program and they now can develop a todo list app at the expense of 200$ for whatever claude has release that week.. sad.
- ryandrake 1y agoI've always thought it would be a sorta neat project to make a web plugin to remove certain topics from the HN main page, but I have never before been ->this<- close to starting such a project than I am now. These topics have totally taken over, and quite frankly, the volume of them make HN less interesting.
- layer8 1y agoYou should be able to vibe-code such a plugin in an evening. ;) I don’t like it as well, but it’s a reflection of what people are concerning themselves with, so it is what is is.
- dijksterhuis 1y agoi had a similar idea. i’ve been hiding a bunch of AI/LLM posts out of habit with the background idea that it might be useful for regexs.
- ghssds 1y agoThere is an app named "Glider" on F-Droid that allows one to filter the HN main page by keywords and url. My current filters are: urls: twitter.com youtube.com keywords: gemini openai claude llm llms ai agi Make the front page more interresting. I'm on browser right now, otherwise this thread would have been filtered.
- sitkack 1y agoIf you just want stories and don't care about the comments, just use the search bar.
- teiferer 1y agoI'd love to see dang's take on this. How to prevent HN getting overrun with AI topics? How to avoid slop killing the mood? In terms of articles, in terms of comments? Is there any estimate of how many comments are LLM-generated? What if I tell an agent "make an HN account and post comments with the goal of maximizing karma" and come back after a week to see how it went?
- jonplackett 1y agoIntentionally not upvoting this post since it is AI related. OK, I’ve done my bit.
- ysavir 1y agoAs sick as I am of them, I wonder how it compares to past trends. What does the data show about Crypto/NFT related show-HNs? Is HN consistent across trends or is AI unique?
- v5v3 1y agoI would guess higher. Only a subset of people were, and still are were involved in Crypto, whereas LLM is of use to pretty much everyone. As a seismic change, of course it's going to be everywhere till the hype cycle flattens.
- spondylosaurus 1y agoI had the same thought about crypto/NFTs... Before AI exploded it seemed like that was the "big topic" on HN for a long time. But there may have been less Show HNs for crypto since it has fewer applications.
- simonw 1y agoAccording to https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ "show hn" "nft" - 151 results "show hn" "blockchain" - 479 results "show hn" "crypto" - 782 results "show hn" "llm" - 2,363 results "show hn" "ai" - 13,128 results
- ysavir 1y agoWell, damn. That's a pretty clear answer!
- JdeBP 1y agoYou missed rust and go from your list. (-:
- absoluteunit1 1y agoI’m surprised blockchain is only 479
- fuzztester 1y agotrends, as in, trendy, as in fashionable, as in topic du jour. trends or trendy does not imply substance.
- jonplackett 1y agoIt’s 9/30 on the home page right now.
- pvtmert 1y agoI am not sure if it's ironic or not, but this post itself is also AI related :). An it's getting quite a lot of votes & comments... Meanwhile, I really liked the blog theme/design. (reading on an iPad) Simple, yet powerful, with a nice touch of the blinking underline at the end of the title. (It's a simple trick via CSS, but nice to see!)
- clircle 1y agoIt’s why i read HN through rss. My rss app lets me filter based on keywords in the subject, so i can filter out the nth post about the incremental updates to commonly used models. If i don’t have control over the feed, i cant read this site.
- vmxdev 1y agoI opened shownew just to make sure, 10 out of 30 posts there are AI-related. I caught myself thinking that because of this AI-hype I read HN less and less. Sure, it is clear that AI is interesting to people (or at least someone wants more hype around AI), but it would be nice to read about real hacker news and projects somewhere.
- randomNumber7 1y agoI think the problem isn't AI, but the hype attracted a lot of low IQ script kids that think they are programmers because chatgpt can write simple code.
- spapas82 1y agoI'm also very tired of such articles. Each article with the same content and unfortunately more or less the same comments. Would it be possible for the moderators to penalize such articles so they can't easily gain traction similar to articles about politics?
- fuzztester 1y agothe same is the case with the main hn page, and the subsequent pages (the More links at the bottom). it's been that way for a while now. the AI craze is in full boom, feverishly stoked and fuelled by the hypesters and hipsters, who stand to gain from it. reminds of the gold rushes of the last few centuries, like in California and the Klondike: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gold_rush https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gold_rush https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Gold_Rush https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Gold_Rush picks and shovels, folks. there's a sucker born every minute: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_minute https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_ever...
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- miduil 1y agoBack when Bitcoin had it's first hype around ~5-1000USD/Bitcoin it was almost the same just with blockchain stuff. Would be very curious how that has changed over time as well.
- hyfgfh 1y agoThere clearly some bias, some post critical of LLMs have been flagged [1] Idk is 3th party actors or an push for "AI" [1] https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lsukqwhjvk26 https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lsukqwhjvk26
- IgorPartola 1y agoThis is probably really well known here but hackaday.com is where I get actually hacker news. The stuff here is 90% valley drama, AI stuff, and random product launches that generally don’t interest me. I do love this community and have learned a lot from it over the years. But the hacker ethos has left HN a decade ago.
- brogdan 1y agoI’m reminded of the posts about a decade ago from various prolific posters waving goodbye to HN. They were too kind at the time to say why.
- josvdwest 1y agoAny tips on how to consume hackaday.com? It doesn't seem as intuitive as hackernews
- IgorPartola 1y agoIt’s a blog, not a news aggregator. Front page is a little different than others but it also just lists blog posts. Once you skim those, scroll to the button that says Older Posts and that will bring you to the next page. Being a blog it also has RSS which you can use to consume it in the reader of your choice. They feature projects done by people from across the web so they refer to people’s names using square brackets e.g. [josvdwest]. Each post has comments which I find to be quite thoughtful. There is also https://hackaday.io/ https://hackaday.io/ which is a repository of hardware projects. In very simplified terms it’s like a cross between Facebook and GitHub for your side project that involves custom hardware. People post the details and their progress. It ranges from half baked attempts that were abandoned early on to some really amazing and unique things. When people complain that the old web is dead, this is the antidote: just clever people creating and collaborating on cool shit.
- sensanaty 1y agoHave you seen the YC batches since 2023? I think legitimately every single one mentions AI in one way or another, the hype is truly mind boggling once you start reading through them for a bit, so many pure BS startups getting funded solely on the premise of wrapping some ChatGPT APIs
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- randomNumber7 1y agoWhere did the people that were here before the ai hype goto? Just asking for a friend.
- jraph 1y agoStill here, patiently hoping and waiting for this to calm down. Etymology of "patiently" relevant.
- Babkock 1y agoYeah I've just about lost all interest in computers and programming. It's not even computers and programming anymore, it's all this other stuff.
- nubinetwork 1y agoSomeone edited the title of this submission, it used to read "More than 1 in 5 Show HN posts are now AI-related"
- ofalkaed 1y agoNot a fan of the heavy AI slant of HN these days but I find it preferable to the increase in meta posting which I have never seen turn out well for any online community. Once discussion about what a community is or should be gets established it never seems to turn out well.
- ai_assisted_dev 1y agoI find it absolutely awesome: 1. I love AI/ML hearing about stuff, and seeing it boom this much is great. 2. I really do enjoy working with LLMs and seeing what they can do. 3. It is quite amazing what non-technical people can now do with AI Assisted coding. 4. Working with LLMs within IDEs is getting quite good too. I understand that there are still people who are not buying it, but quite honestly, its becoming harder to side with them. I have been in Software for 2 decades, and this "craze" has given me the most amount of enjoyment I have gotten since I figured out how to build a website sometime in my teens!
- skeeter2020 1y agoI think you're missing the general complaint. It's not against any of the the things you like, it's the over-saturation of not only AI, but a very small segment of AI.
- marginalia_nu 1y agoSeems likely to be at least partially selection bias. When large emphasis is on the technology (whether it's made with AI or written in Rust or whatever), it seems at least in some cases like there is less substance to the idea itself, as a good product is a good product regardless of how it's built. A post like "Show HN: I'm using AI to sort a list of integers" is inherently boring since if you remove the AI part it's something we've been doing for half a century. A post like "Show HN: I'm using AI to translate Linear A" is interesting and would be interesting even if AI wasn't involved.
- dankwizard 1y agoI only ingest HackerNews through a vibe coded lightweight AI first viewer, comprised of articles that GPT4o thinks match with my personality, and these too are summarised using AI to give me the gist.
- minimaxir 1y agoA couple subtle notes on the BigQuery queries: a) Most date/time functions work with TIMESTAMP, no need to convert to/from DATETIME. b) You can do case-invariant regexes for REGEXP_CONTAINS() by prefixing it with (?i), which is more performant than casing w/ UPPER/LOWER beforehand: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42987537/google-bigquery-possible-to-do-case-insensitive-regexp-match https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42987537/google-bigquery...
- ada1981 1y agoWe are on the cusp of AGI, the largest development of our species in our history… makes sense this would be increasing in discussion.
- zahlman 1y ago> What's more, 2020, likely because of COVID externalities, had more posts (16,899) than 2023 (14,062) and almost as many as 2024 (17,618). Okay, but what happened in 2018?
- jader201 1y agoI’m actually growing bored with tech news, in general (as someone in the software engineering field), and am starting to be drawn more to things like advances in health and medical sciences, disease treatment/prevention, etc. I wish there was an HN of everything outside of tech. (Of course, these sometimes overlap, but for articles talking about how tech/AI is helping solve medical problems, I’ll allow it.)
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