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I submitted a somewhat similar project yesterday to Show HN (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring, with zero community features. I cal

by pchm 4mo ago

I submitted a somewhat similar project yesterday to Show HN (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring, with zero community features. I call it bubblewire. Funny. I had no prior knowledge of bubbles.town until seeing it here now. bubbles.town looks nice! Hope to see more projects that aim to bring back the good old web. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552985

latexr 4mo ago
> (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring One reason for it not resonating might be that it’s yet another opaque algorithmic feed in a moment in time where people are getting sick and tired of them and wary of their manipulative features. And HN is so inundated with AI submissions that having yet another Show HN about it is uninteresting to many. Would you visit HN if it were just a link aggregator whose ranking was decided by hidden logic of a machine? A lot of people wouldn’t. We’re a social species, there is value in human curation—especially when driven by the community—that’s inherently lacking from algorithmic curation (AI or otherwise).
- pchm 4mo ago
  That's true, provided that all activity (comments, voting) here is still coming from actual humans. That's no longer the case for community websites, I'm afraid. It's an experiment made for the web of 2026, where you can no longer tell if the users are humans or bots. If nobody's interested in that idea, I accept that.
- akoboldfrying 4mo ago
  > Would you visit HN if were just a link aggregator whose ranking was decided by hidden logic of a machine? I assumed it was...? If not, who or what decides the ranking moment-by-moment? dang?
  - agmater 4mo ago
    It's based on votes mainly. This is covered in the FAQ [1] and the exact algorithm has also been shared in the past [2]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013
cosmicgadget 4mo ago
I think it's great. I don't mind the AI ranking system (it beats a free for all), though it's a bit like HN where only a few posts appeal to me. I'd have upvoted you but I think you got eaten by /new.
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by pchm 4mo ago

latexr 4mo ago

> (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring One reason for it not resonating might be that it’s yet another opaque algorithmic feed in a moment in time where people are getting sick and tired of them and wary of their manipulative features. And HN is so inundated with AI submissions that having yet another Show HN about it is uninteresting to many. Would you visit HN if it were just a link aggregator whose ranking was decided by hidden logic of a machine? A lot of people wouldn’t. We’re a social species, there is value in human curation—especially when driven by the community—that’s inherently lacking from algorithmic curation (AI or otherwise).

pchm 4mo ago
That's true, provided that all activity (comments, voting) here is still coming from actual humans. That's no longer the case for community websites, I'm afraid. It's an experiment made for the web of 2026, where you can no longer tell if the users are humans or bots. If nobody's interested in that idea, I accept that.
akoboldfrying 4mo ago
> Would you visit HN if were just a link aggregator whose ranking was decided by hidden logic of a machine? I assumed it was...? If not, who or what decides the ranking moment-by-moment? dang?
- agmater 4mo ago
  It's based on votes mainly. This is covered in the FAQ [1] and the exact algorithm has also been shared in the past [2]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013

cosmicgadget 4mo ago

I think it's great. I don't mind the AI ranking system (it beats a free for all), though it's a bit like HN where only a few posts appeal to me. I'd have upvoted you but I think you got eaten by /new.

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