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No, not really. This has been telegraphed for a long time by everyone involved. HN denizens have been unashamedly anti-ai for years now, so what makes sense is

No, not really. This has been telegraphed for a long time by everyone involved. HN denizens have been unashamedly anti-ai for years now, so what makes sense is the not knowing part of this audience. Chinese models are also not frontier models.

toraway 4mo ago
I still find it baffling how the idea that HN is "unashamedly anti-ai" gets repeated. Every single model release gets submitted within minutes of an announcement and frequently break 1000+ points within an hour or two. Blog posts about vibe coding or the current flavor of harness/workflow/tool are constantly making the front page. Karpathy's latest writing/presentations or "Learn how LLMs work using X" are perennial front page content. There were moments in 2023/2024 where all but a handful of posts on the front page were about AI (and not the Reddit r/popular "residents worried about infrasound and EM radiation near new datacenter" variety). For example, the responses to this very recent post were overwhelmingly praising Gen AI's capabilities: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406174 Or this post which rocketed to 2000+ points a year ago without bothering to steel man opposing arguments: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063 There are counter examples of course but just because HN isn't exclusively AI hype at all times doesn't mean it's "unashamedly anti-AI". I honestly can't think of any single topic other than the Snowden leaks in 2013/2014 that even comes close to dominating HN discussion like LLMs/GenAI from 2022 to present.
- polski-g 4mo ago
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  - tancop 4mo ago
    data centers with evap cooling use a lot of water and in some places its taking away from residents. thats a fact not a conspiracy. closed loop systems exist and its possible to make them mandatory by law or city ordinance, but if they did that the company running the data center would make a little less money so they act like pumping out water is the only way. its the same with carbon emissions and making them build solar panels.
    - polski-g 4mo ago
      Evaporative cooling!? Does that mean it disappears into the sky to make stars?
- sixothree 4mo ago
  I still have people arguing with me that 'nobody is "getting real work done" with these toy AI models'.

toraway 4mo ago

I still find it baffling how the idea that HN is "unashamedly anti-ai" gets repeated. Every single model release gets submitted within minutes of an announcement and frequently break 1000+ points within an hour or two. Blog posts about vibe coding or the current flavor of harness/workflow/tool are constantly making the front page. Karpathy's latest writing/presentations or "Learn how LLMs work using X" are perennial front page content. There were moments in 2023/2024 where all but a handful of posts on the front page were about AI (and not the Reddit r/popular "residents worried about infrasound and EM radiation near new datacenter" variety). For example, the responses to this very recent post were overwhelmingly praising Gen AI's capabilities: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406174 Or this post which rocketed to 2000+ points a year ago without bothering to steel man opposing arguments: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063 There are counter examples of course but just because HN isn't exclusively AI hype at all times doesn't mean it's "unashamedly anti-AI". I honestly can't think of any single topic other than the Snowden leaks in 2013/2014 that even comes close to dominating HN discussion like LLMs/GenAI from 2022 to present.

polski-g 4mo ago
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- tancop 4mo ago
  data centers with evap cooling use a lot of water and in some places its taking away from residents. thats a fact not a conspiracy. closed loop systems exist and its possible to make them mandatory by law or city ordinance, but if they did that the company running the data center would make a little less money so they act like pumping out water is the only way. its the same with carbon emissions and making them build solar panels.
  - polski-g 4mo ago
    Evaporative cooling!? Does that mean it disappears into the sky to make stars?
sixothree 4mo ago
I still have people arguing with me that 'nobody is "getting real work done" with these toy AI models'.