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Ask HN: Significant reduction in AI related submissions?

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It's kind of meta but has anyone noticed a pretty significant change in the distribution of submissions?

I kind of stopped visiting HN for a couple of months because most submissions were AI related in some way and the conversation were not very interesting imo.

It's actually nice to see more balanced distribution of stories on different parts of tech, reminds me why I found this community so interesting.

There are still lots of AI stories but its closer to like 1 to 3 per 30.

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ChrisArchitect
nah you're off there, it's as bad if not still getting increasingly worse actually based on common things like AI, LLM, etc topics. :-\ Perhaps there's just some more attention/discussion going on in the other submissions also so it feels a bit better.
uaas
I am waiting for someone with an AI tool that visualises the actual trend.
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csomar
It coincided with Claude Code but now that the novelty has wear off, there isn't much to interest the public with.
dcminter
There seems to be a lull right now. I did this silly thing:

https://hntags.com

Mostly 'cos I was trying to track whether the surfeit of AI stuff was real or my imagination - when I did it I was consistently getting four to eight AI stories per front page view. Right now there's only one. The categorisation is very loosey goosey, but I think it's reflecting something real there.

More details on the logic: https://paperstack.com/hntags/

I'm currently on a delightful honeymoon with my wife (6 years after the wedding because of covid and procrastination), but when I get back I intend to add some tracking of category stats over time as well as in-the-moment.