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Your suggestion would break my use case: i.e I check out HN every day to see what the latest models that have been released are, and opinions from erudite peopl

Your suggestion would break my use case: i.e I check out HN every day to see what the latest models that have been released are, and opinions from erudite people who have taken them for a spin. Keeping abreast of fast moving AI developments with informed opinions/comments for various new models/agents etc. is primarily what I'm here for.

cromka 24d ago
> Your suggestion would break my use case: i.e I check out HN every day to see what the latest models that have been released are But you can get that from some AI-specific sources, it doesn't have to be HN. That's the point, this medium used to be much more universal. It also means you're new here, because that's not what HN was until quite recently, so your use-case wouldn't work.
- Dlemlo 24d ago
  Tbh if you are long enough on hn, quite a lot of stuff gets repeated over and over. AI gets 'that much' tracktion because it is right now the fastest changing technology we have and with the biggest impact day-to-day for a lot of people on hn. The CVEs from the last few month? Normal topic for hn, it became an AI toopic because AI found them.
- skeledrew 24d ago
  > you're new here Their account is 2 years older than yours. Doesn't say much since you could've been using another or sans account long before then, but still.
  - cromka 24d ago
    Right, but my point was about what they said about the use-case. They couldn't have been coming here for AI news since 2017. So did they finally find their use-case for HN some 2 years ago? If they were indeed coming here before AI revolution, it was a different type of medium.
    - hannofcart 24d ago
      I have always used HN for consuming tech news. I was trying to say that these days, I really love following the developments in AI and among the most erudite audience for that can be found here, which is great. You extrapolated that to assuming that AI news was my only use case. Am saying that a lot of us like HN the way it is, and the way it has evolved organically into a firehose of AI news.
- ffsm8 24d ago
  I think he's meme-ing https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
JoshTriplett 24d ago
Limiting the flood wouldn't mean necessarily omitting stories like "new model released" (within reason); it'd mean omitting "check out my new vibecoded slop" or "check out this article that's obviously LLM-written and provides very little value" (what we once would have called "blogspam", or dismissed as SEO-bait).
- skeledrew 24d ago
  There's no way to reliably filter that "vibecoded slop" or "low value LLM-written article" (BTW what about low value human-written articles?) without users actually interacting with them. And it's actually the votes/flags of said users that determines visibility, so I'd say that's an indication of where the interests of HN's most active users lie.
- pixl97 24d ago
  Anyone with any karma can limit the flood by upvoting/down voting. And based on the number of dead submissions they do. I think part of the problem is people that like AI really like it and those that hate it really hate it. Hard to reconcile that.
someguynamedq 24d ago
You lost me at erudite

cromka 24d ago

> Your suggestion would break my use case: i.e I check out HN every day to see what the latest models that have been released are But you can get that from some AI-specific sources, it doesn't have to be HN. That's the point, this medium used to be much more universal. It also means you're new here, because that's not what HN was until quite recently, so your use-case wouldn't work.

Dlemlo 24d ago
Tbh if you are long enough on hn, quite a lot of stuff gets repeated over and over. AI gets 'that much' tracktion because it is right now the fastest changing technology we have and with the biggest impact day-to-day for a lot of people on hn. The CVEs from the last few month? Normal topic for hn, it became an AI toopic because AI found them.
skeledrew 24d ago
> you're new here Their account is 2 years older than yours. Doesn't say much since you could've been using another or sans account long before then, but still.
- cromka 24d ago
  Right, but my point was about what they said about the use-case. They couldn't have been coming here for AI news since 2017. So did they finally find their use-case for HN some 2 years ago? If they were indeed coming here before AI revolution, it was a different type of medium.
  - hannofcart 24d ago
    I have always used HN for consuming tech news. I was trying to say that these days, I really love following the developments in AI and among the most erudite audience for that can be found here, which is great. You extrapolated that to assuming that AI news was my only use case. Am saying that a lot of us like HN the way it is, and the way it has evolved organically into a firehose of AI news.
ffsm8 24d ago
I think he's meme-ing https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/

JoshTriplett 24d ago

Limiting the flood wouldn't mean necessarily omitting stories like "new model released" (within reason); it'd mean omitting "check out my new vibecoded slop" or "check out this article that's obviously LLM-written and provides very little value" (what we once would have called "blogspam", or dismissed as SEO-bait).

skeledrew 24d ago
There's no way to reliably filter that "vibecoded slop" or "low value LLM-written article" (BTW what about low value human-written articles?) without users actually interacting with them. And it's actually the votes/flags of said users that determines visibility, so I'd say that's an indication of where the interests of HN's most active users lie.
pixl97 24d ago
Anyone with any karma can limit the flood by upvoting/down voting. And based on the number of dead submissions they do. I think part of the problem is people that like AI really like it and those that hate it really hate it. Hard to reconcile that.

someguynamedq 24d ago

You lost me at erudite