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HN is a reflection of the industry and we're at peak hype-cycle at the moment. I use this when I need a break https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai https://elijahpo
by leonheld 2mo ago
HN is a reflection of the industry and we're at peak hype-cycle at the moment. I use this when I need a break https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai.
- jstummbillig 2mo agoIt's unlikely that right now is peak anything AI.
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- bensyverson 2mo agoYeah, that's like someone in 1998 saying we're at peak internet hype
- execat 2mo agoThis is so refreshing. Almost everything in top/new/best is an interesting read. Either I don't know anything about the topic ("...the spanning tree protocol") or am seriously interested in the topic ("Remembering Hong Kong", "Automattic's board forces CEO..."). None of these made to frontpage over the last two days AFAIK.
- flexagoon 2mo agoThey're all on the front page, just buried between all the AI stuff
- tetris11 2mo agoIts important to use these filtered front pages though, so that eventually theres a sizable Referrer traffic chunk coming not from HN's frontpage itself that will signal to the admins that something is up
- noir_lord 2mo agoNo disrespect intended at all, I like HN and have used it for what feels like a long time and the moderation team that keeps it one of the more reasonable places to have a conversation on the internet (for the most part). That out of the way, The admin/moderators can hardly be unware given they work for a startup accelerator that is heavily in on the AI stuff, it is the way it is because that is the way they want it to be. HN is great but it's bias has always skewed to what is hot in the VC market or that they are heavily in on at the time (as someone who was around when it seemed like every other post was blockchain/crypto it's not even "new").
- tetris11 2mo agooh absolutely, but if they lose half their audience due to the sloppification of their front page, then they lose both legitimacy as an interesting and impartial platform to promote said AI tech
- krapp 2mo agoThe mods have said that they consider the cynicism and "curmudgeonliness" in the community to be a problem and they want newer people coming in. The most direct way to accomplish that would be to drive the old grumps out and replace them with a younger pro-AI userbase. After all, every startup YC will fund in the forseeable future will be first and foremost an AI startup. There just isn't going to be a place here for people who actually enjoy programming as an art, or the human element in any creative activity, nor any benefit to YC in maintaining that culture. You can't serve humanity and the machine, you have to choose a master. YC has no choice but to choose the machine because that's where the money is, so HN has no choice but to follow suit. Hacker News is an AI forum. I'm not suggesting there is some kind of conspiracy afoot but I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to just give in let nature take its course.
- flexagoon 2mo agoThey will lose half their audience and gain it back from all the Twitter AI bros.
- cromka 2mo agoWhich kind of makes my point: these pages filter AI stuff, but do not make room for non-AI stuff.
- Kwpolska 2mo ago(The Automattic story did make it to the front page.)
- utopiah 2mo agothanks, rebinded my Tridactyl shortcut for HN to this.
- pixel_popping 2mo agoThank you, could you make the UI match exactly?
- leonheld 2mo agoTo be clear: I'm not the author. I just use the service.
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- flexagoon 2mo agoThere's also https://unslop.news https://unslop.news, which removes just the posts about AI, rather than all posts that mention it at all
- cromka 2mo agoOK, this is cool, actually! Thanks! It cannot be a long-term solution, though. Most people don't use them and if HN continues to be AI-foremost, many will simply stop coming here to post other interesting, non-AI stuff. A vicious circle.
- sammy0910 2mo agotheres also https://sprinklz.io/public/pdwt4dve5uai https://sprinklz.io/public/pdwt4dve5uai which additionally lets you add and modify custom filters
- otherayden 2mo agoI'm curious where people would go to as an alternative. I like looking at lobste.rs for non-AI stuff, but to post there you need to be invited by an existing member so it's not a perfect alternative.
- krapp 2mo agoThe fediverse. Mastodon or Lemmy are viable alternatives if you curate well enough.
- nickthegreek 2mo agoSo nothing to worry about then.
- krapp 2mo agoUnless you're one of those people who only ever use HN and make it a part of your identity, sure. You can just leave for greener pastures. Or learn to care less.
- kurtis_reed 2mo agoPeople have been saying we've been "at peak hype-cycle" for years
- shermantanktop 2mo agoPeak so far. Maybe there’s a hype singularity where the hype is so strong that nothing can escape.
- vanschelven 2mo agoThis is just asking for a parody-site that displays literally an empty page though.
- hellon3wheels 2mo agoGood idea, I'll ask Claude to spin that up
- vanschelven 2mo agoAs inspired by this tumblr which did not age well: https://www.tumblr.com/picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes https://www.tumblr.com/picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes
- polonbike 2mo agoThank you so much for sharing this
- the__alchemist 2mo agoHero
- griffiths 2mo agoIt would be cool if one could visualise (graph wise) the number of posts around different hypes (eg. crypto, not sure what else was prominent like AI) throughout the history of HN.
- burningChrome 2mo agoFascinating. It would seem OP is spot on. I just used this and it reduced the front page of 30 posts to 14.
- eggfriedrice 2mo agoThis is great! I hope it was vibe coded
- dpweb 2mo agoIronically this thread became Yet Another AI Discussion. Really its just the agi takes that are the most useless and annoying.
- sippingabonedry 2mo agoIt's more complicated than that. This place has changed. The biggest tell is reposting something interesting from a year or two ago that received hundreds of upvotes. Now it will get 2 or three upvotes whilst "lulz Trump" /r/politics style culture war BS will be immediately hurled up and onto the front page.
- dgellow 2mo agoThose posts get buried really quickly by the anti flamewar algorithms. I really don’t think anything changed regarding political stuff over the past 2y on this site (other than the fact the US has a new administration doing pretty insane things, resulting in way more important political topics, such as everything related to Iran)
- rpdillon 2mo agoI guess "hype cycle" is an accurate description, but it feels overly negative, in the sense that we now have a revolutionary technology that's still quite young and moving fast, and folks everywhere are trying to figure out how to leverage it, both to do new things, and to deal with the problems it causes. So it just feels like a high-energy time where we're going to have a billion ideas, most of them will suck, and we'll eventually find out where the real winners are. Given that context, having a hacker site cover what's happening with that revolution makes sense. All that said, I agree with OP that it does drown out other cool things happening, but that's just how mass psychology works.
- Gud 2mo agoCalling AI "hype" is like calling the internet hype.
- luckman212 2mo agoThe peak that never stops peaking, apparently
- fg137 2mo agoAny idea whether there is a mobile app for that?
- gokuljs 2mo agoQuestion: Why do you think it is a hype cycle?