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People who are a little late to the site may not know there was a time on HN where Erlang has even more frontage submission than the best of AI / LLM. Ruby Rai
by ksec 1y ago
People who are a little late to the site may not know there was a time on HN where Erlang has even more frontage submission than the best of AI / LLM.
Ruby Rails, Postgres, SQLite, Rust, etc. They all have their moments and I dont think LLM right now is as overwhelming as any other hyped moments. Certainly not Erlang.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 1y agoMicroservices had a micro moment not much longer than xml.
- amarcheschi 1y agoIf it follows the name, it's gonna be terrible since we're dealing with large language models
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- antonymoose 1y agoIt all depends if you care about the tech side of HN or the startup side of HN. I love the tech articles above all else and could easily do without the general trend fluff. With that said, I don’t find the AI posts nearly as bad as the Blockchain era.
- devmor 1y agoAs annoyed as I am with the constant deluge of uninteresting AI/LLM articles, I would much rather see a split between tech and startup news. I think that's a lasting and useful distinction.
- Karrot_Kream 1y agoIsn't topical subcommunities just Reddit?
- aydyn 1y agoThe userbase overlap is probably > 50%. To many people HN is just another subreddit.
- sshine 1y agoLobste.rs provides that distinction.
- 201984 1y agoAnd it's invite-only, so it's hardly an alternative.
- MarceColl 1y agowell, it takes around 20 minutes to get an invite, so hardly a problem if you prefer only tech articles
- iib 1y agoHow exactly does it take 20 minutes to get an invite? I have not tried it, but I can't see how that would be easy.
- earnestinger 1y agoNo idea. Read only is good enough.
- MarceColl 1y agoI got mine in about that time, joined their IRC and asked for an invite, someone DM'd me, asked me a couple of questions and sent me the invite. This was about 7 years ago when there as a lot less people, so I imagine it should be easier now.
- sugarpimpdorsey 1y agoA socially awkward speakeasy with deranged moderation? Where do I sign up? A forum that is exclusionary-by-design has already failed.
- zahlman 1y agoPersonally, I'm more interested in the think-pieces than the actual news. (And I could very much do without the content that revolves around US politics. Even if it draws me in sometimes.)
- Bukhmanizer 1y agoI don’t remember blockchain ever being as big as AI here. More annoying? Yes.
- thm 1y agoYes, but unlike AI & Crypto, Erlang came with little grift, slop and Show HN spam.
- Karrot_Kream 1y agoThe atmosphere on the site was very different then. There was plenty of Erlang vaporware and lots of "how to grow your startup" growth spam which wasn't called growth spam yet. The community was a lot less cynical then (though obviously the middlebrow dismissal [1] tendency of the site is quite old.) [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726248 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726248
- ghc 1y agoI miss the days of daily Haskell posts.
- piperswe 1y agoI can imagine you would, with that username :)
- tsoukase 1y agoI would definitely follow a HN fork with posts of such amusing spirit.
- GZGavinZhao 1y ago"tell me you like Haskell without telling me you like Haskell" moment
- dude187 1y agoI mean, he basically said directly that he likes Haskell lol
- GZGavinZhao 1y agoOh haha I meant his username ;)
- ghc 1y agoBack in the early days of HN most people thought my username was my initials. Alas, if those were actually my initials it would be a fantastic example of nominative determinism.
- cmdrk 1y agoI wouldn't mind the Erlang-dominated front page coming back :)
- Bluestein 1y agoSeconded :)
- amalcon 1y agoErlang is kind of a special case, since there was that period when the community's preferred response to "too much politics" was to spam submissions about Erlang. Agreed though, it doesn't seem to have taken over more than (say) Bitcoin or Rust have at times.
- fuzzythinker 1y agoThat was very different. Somehow the entire front page was Erlang, but it was only for a day or 2. AI is different from that. It's like a good 40-50% of the posts for at least a year or more, and I don't see it going away anytime soon. It's also different from web3/etc. as those were at most 10% of the posts and most of us can see it's just hype. I'm not fighting for a split/fork, just stating the fact that it's nothing compared to Erlang.
- endtime 1y agoIIRC that was a deliberate campaign to make the site unattractive to a spate of non-technical folks who had apparently all simultaneously discovered it.
- waterhouse 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 "We've had a huge spike in traffic lately, from roughly 24k daily uniques to 33k. This is a result of being mentioned on more mainstream sites [...] You can help the spike subside by making HN look extra boring. For the next couple days it would be better to have posts about the innards of Erlang [...]" "Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine." Also some fun comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512178
- ModernMech 1y agolol ask a community of autists for more posts about the innards of Erlang, don't be surprised when you get posts about the innards of Erlang.
- flakiness 1y agoThis is a great little anthropology work of you. Thanks for taking time to find this out!
- thefourthchime 1y agoOne might argue that those technologies are sunsetting now
- faizshah 1y agoThe best one was the 2048 era: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=2048 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=2048
- conductr 1y agoI've been here a while and this is certainly more, prolonged, and has no end in sight compared to most other hype cycles we've experienced. It's also exceedingly generic such that AI isn't really a topic, it's an entire classification or maybe domain to steal from the animal kingdom hierarchy.
- seydor 1y agoto be fair, AI is replacing all computers so talking e.g. about languages is believed to be soon obsolete. I would like to see more nuanced and interesting articles about AI though. Right now it's all about VCs measuring the size of their investments and the politics of alleged superstar programmers.
- seydor 1y agoOh my god, the years of the JS frameworks. Millions traumatized for life
- bookofjoe 1y agoI hope I'm not the only one here who never heard of Erlang until I read your comment (I arrived in 2016).