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Yeah, it's become such a boring AI marketing outlet.

red-iron-pine 5mo ago
HN is the news aggregator for an incubator / startup factory. The guy in charge of OpenAI used to run HN. With respect, what did you expect this place to be?
- keiferski 5mo ago
  Both of things were true 5 years ago, and yet 9/10 topics weren't about AI then. I'm hoping it's just a trend, but...I'm still waiting.
  - red-iron-pine 5mo ago
    there were tons of AI discussions on HN 5 years ago. I first heard about GPT 1 here! They key difference is that now AI is taking over -- why would 90% of all tech discussions be about it? AFAIK based on stats the only real economic growth globally right now is AI...
UqWBcuFx6NV4r 5mo ago
“it’s a technology that i don’t like therefore its marketing, but I am apparently blind to how HN is a boring marketing outlet in every other respect, too.”
- lordkrandel 5mo ago
  It's not that I dislike it. It's just the emptiness of conversations around it. Most discussion is not about the technology itself, or real takes, it's just "blablabla" It used to be more on point, like, 1 year ago? Even the Musk/Twitter times have gone now :D And that rich dude is even more richer now. "Money is a problem for those who don't have it", "Google declaring war on the web", "AI didn't invent slop, it scaled it", "Declining America", "Linus Torvalds says he has a love-hate relationship with AI"... I mean... Ok, but ... who cares?
  - consumer451 5mo ago
    The good thing about this place is that people such as you and I can communicate, and tell people where to learn more. For me, as someone just trying to learn, these two very recent Dwarkesh pod/lectures have begun to educate me a bit: > Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/reiner-pope https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/reiner-pope > Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/eric-jang https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/eric-jang However, I feel you. I wish that HN was a place where each of the links above had hundreds of upvotes, and really good discussion. The both deserve it.
- mattmanser 5mo ago
  Says the account of random characters created 4 months ago.

HN is the news aggregator for an incubator / startup factory. The guy in charge of OpenAI used to run HN. With respect, what did you expect this place to be?

keiferski 5mo ago
Both of things were true 5 years ago, and yet 9/10 topics weren't about AI then. I'm hoping it's just a trend, but...I'm still waiting.
- red-iron-pine 5mo ago
  there were tons of AI discussions on HN 5 years ago. I first heard about GPT 1 here! They key difference is that now AI is taking over -- why would 90% of all tech discussions be about it? AFAIK based on stats the only real economic growth globally right now is AI...

UqWBcuFx6NV4r 5mo ago

“it’s a technology that i don’t like therefore its marketing, but I am apparently blind to how HN is a boring marketing outlet in every other respect, too.”

lordkrandel 5mo ago
It's not that I dislike it. It's just the emptiness of conversations around it. Most discussion is not about the technology itself, or real takes, it's just "blablabla" It used to be more on point, like, 1 year ago? Even the Musk/Twitter times have gone now :D And that rich dude is even more richer now. "Money is a problem for those who don't have it", "Google declaring war on the web", "AI didn't invent slop, it scaled it", "Declining America", "Linus Torvalds says he has a love-hate relationship with AI"... I mean... Ok, but ... who cares?
- consumer451 5mo ago
  The good thing about this place is that people such as you and I can communicate, and tell people where to learn more. For me, as someone just trying to learn, these two very recent Dwarkesh pod/lectures have begun to educate me a bit: > Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/reiner-pope https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/reiner-pope > Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/eric-jang https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/eric-jang However, I feel you. I wish that HN was a place where each of the links above had hundreds of upvotes, and really good discussion. The both deserve it.
mattmanser 5mo ago
Says the account of random characters created 4 months ago.