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Yeah 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

Yeah 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 ago
I'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 ago
  You 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 ago
  i 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 ago
  There 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 ago
    If you just want stories and don't care about the comments, just use the search bar.
- louthy 1y ago
  Bonus points if you implement it with an LLM, then blog about it using an LLM, and then post the link to HN where it will be auto filtered out by the generated tool (maybe, because let’s face it, it’s non deterministic)
  - ryandrake 1y ago
    I could post it to HN as a "Show HN" for extra irony points.
- homebrewer 1y ago
  I wrote a simple uBlock Origin rule as a quick-and-dirty solution months ago. It doesn't get rid of sibling nodes (still haven't researched how to do it), but does remove the submission title and the vote button. news.ycombinator.com###hnmain .submission:has-text(/\b(llms?|vibe[ -]?cod[ei]|claude|chatgpt|altman|agentic|ai)\b/i) The line goes to uBO settings → My filters. I removed most words to keep it short, it's easy to adjust according to one's tastes.
  - t1amat 1y ago
    Your filter doesn’t seem to be working properly right now.
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henriquemaia 1y ago
In a kind of personal plot twist way I'm happy with the outcome. I've now spent way less time here. If before there was a bit of an attachment to checking what was going on on HN, now there's an overall meh. I still do visit out of habit, but when I do, I have this blasé attitude that quickly takes me away. Too much LLM this or that, AI everywhere. HN being one of the last Social Media sites I've engaged with, it's good to finally let it go. Yay?
- sho_hn 1y ago
  Dunno, I felt way worse during the crypto boom days. At least the AI stuff has a bit more of a generally useful application. I get my "people doing interesting things" fixes on YouTube and Hackaday.
  - nerdsniper 1y ago
    https://www.crowdsupply.com/ https://www.crowdsupply.com/ is nice too!
  - slg 1y ago
    >Dunno, I felt way worse during the crypto boom days. At least the AI stuff has a bit more of a generally useful application. The problem with the current wave of AI is that it isn't "generally useful" yet. These AI systems can be very effective in certain situations when they are used with the specific knowledge of their flaws, but they are being applied to a much too broad use case today. Granted the valid use cases for crypto were miniscule in comparison, so I won't quibble too much with your general point. Although the most frustrating aspect to me is that the people who were shown to be right about crypto have not earned any gravitas when they say similar things about AI. So many charlatans were saved by a second bubble immediately inflating as the previous bubble popped and we are once again ignoring the people calling them charlatans despite the proven track record for calling out this behavior. Seemingly no one learned anything.
  - jowea 1y ago
    During the crypto boom days it was more of a fight in the comments, wasn't it?
internet2000 1y ago
Anything that gets posted to HN when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that gets posted to HN between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything posted to HN after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- dijit 1y ago
  Yeah, you're right. I should do more blockchain development.
- brookst 1y ago
  What a coincidence! It’s just like music! Have you heard the noise kids are listening to these days?
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- Aeolun 1y ago
  I’m not so sure about that number of 35. Might be closer to 30.
- hnlmorg 1y ago
  The GP wasn’t complaining about there being an AI hype. They were complaining that the front page is oversaturated by said hype. I’ve been on HN since near the beginning (under a different user name originally). And there have been quite a few trends rise and fall on here. But none of them were as intense as this AI hype currently is. In fact it’s not even AI in the more general sense, it’s almost entirely just LLMs that get discussed. There’s so much more going on outside of LLMs but all anyone is talking about on HN is natural language tools.
  - simonw 1y ago
    I imagine that's because LLMs are of most interest to the Hacker News crowd: they can help write code, and you can build systems on top of them that can "understand" and respond in human language. Generative image / video / audio models can produce output in image, video and audio. Those have far less applications than models that can output text, structured data and code.
gdubs 1y ago
I mean, some of us are still uploading various hacker-newsy things like this article by Naughty Dog on how they used a custom LISP for their development of Crash Bandacoot for the Sony PlayStation — but they get like, one upvote ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470377 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470377
- spauldo 1y ago
  That's an old and fairly well-known thing, though. Lisp folks don't see a lot of commercial success stories so we tend to talk about the ones we have. The non-Lispers don't care.
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ryandrake 1y ago

I'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 ago
You 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 ago
i 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 ago
There 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 ago
  If you just want stories and don't care about the comments, just use the search bar.
louthy 1y ago
Bonus points if you implement it with an LLM, then blog about it using an LLM, and then post the link to HN where it will be auto filtered out by the generated tool (maybe, because let’s face it, it’s non deterministic)
- ryandrake 1y ago
  I could post it to HN as a "Show HN" for extra irony points.
homebrewer 1y ago
I wrote a simple uBlock Origin rule as a quick-and-dirty solution months ago. It doesn't get rid of sibling nodes (still haven't researched how to do it), but does remove the submission title and the vote button. news.ycombinator.com###hnmain .submission:has-text(/\b(llms?|vibe[ -]?cod[ei]|claude|chatgpt|altman|agentic|ai)\b/i) The line goes to uBO settings → My filters. I removed most words to keep it short, it's easy to adjust according to one's tastes.
- t1amat 1y ago
  Your filter doesn’t seem to be working properly right now.
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henriquemaia 1y ago

In a kind of personal plot twist way I'm happy with the outcome. I've now spent way less time here. If before there was a bit of an attachment to checking what was going on on HN, now there's an overall meh. I still do visit out of habit, but when I do, I have this blasé attitude that quickly takes me away. Too much LLM this or that, AI everywhere. HN being one of the last Social Media sites I've engaged with, it's good to finally let it go. Yay?

sho_hn 1y ago
Dunno, I felt way worse during the crypto boom days. At least the AI stuff has a bit more of a generally useful application. I get my "people doing interesting things" fixes on YouTube and Hackaday.
- nerdsniper 1y ago
  https://www.crowdsupply.com/ https://www.crowdsupply.com/ is nice too!
- slg 1y ago
  >Dunno, I felt way worse during the crypto boom days. At least the AI stuff has a bit more of a generally useful application. The problem with the current wave of AI is that it isn't "generally useful" yet. These AI systems can be very effective in certain situations when they are used with the specific knowledge of their flaws, but they are being applied to a much too broad use case today. Granted the valid use cases for crypto were miniscule in comparison, so I won't quibble too much with your general point. Although the most frustrating aspect to me is that the people who were shown to be right about crypto have not earned any gravitas when they say similar things about AI. So many charlatans were saved by a second bubble immediately inflating as the previous bubble popped and we are once again ignoring the people calling them charlatans despite the proven track record for calling out this behavior. Seemingly no one learned anything.
- jowea 1y ago
  During the crypto boom days it was more of a fight in the comments, wasn't it?

internet2000 1y ago

Anything that gets posted to HN when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that gets posted to HN between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything posted to HN after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

dijit 1y ago
Yeah, you're right. I should do more blockchain development.
brookst 1y ago
What a coincidence! It’s just like music! Have you heard the noise kids are listening to these days?
- deleted 1y ago
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Aeolun 1y ago
I’m not so sure about that number of 35. Might be closer to 30.
hnlmorg 1y ago
The GP wasn’t complaining about there being an AI hype. They were complaining that the front page is oversaturated by said hype. I’ve been on HN since near the beginning (under a different user name originally). And there have been quite a few trends rise and fall on here. But none of them were as intense as this AI hype currently is. In fact it’s not even AI in the more general sense, it’s almost entirely just LLMs that get discussed. There’s so much more going on outside of LLMs but all anyone is talking about on HN is natural language tools.
- simonw 1y ago
  I imagine that's because LLMs are of most interest to the Hacker News crowd: they can help write code, and you can build systems on top of them that can "understand" and respond in human language. Generative image / video / audio models can produce output in image, video and audio. Those have far less applications than models that can output text, structured data and code.

gdubs 1y ago

I mean, some of us are still uploading various hacker-newsy things like this article by Naughty Dog on how they used a custom LISP for their development of Crash Bandacoot for the Sony PlayStation — but they get like, one upvote ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470377 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470377

spauldo 1y ago
That's an old and fairly well-known thing, though. Lisp folks don't see a lot of commercial success stories so we tend to talk about the ones we have. The non-Lispers don't care.

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