Somewhat absurd imo seeing two of these types of sites being the top posts. But as they say the market speaks. What would be more fascinating imo is to track the average article shift from removal over time.
something that makes this website different from all the others, is it lets you filter by _any_ combination of topics, and allows you to edit them live and in real time.
HN reflects what their users (or people trying to influence them) post most. A few years ago it was flooded with crypto, a few years later it will be flooded with something else.
Actually, it always actively suppressed content owners found repetitive or annoying. Openly so, the moderator would even state it is being done. It is simply part of moderation.
And then there is flagging where certain content grts flagged much faster then other.
Mastodon is just as bad, it suffers from the same problem as most of the Fediverse it inspired, admins of large instances bitchfighting with one another and holding their users hostage...
Mastodon's UI is horrible. At least for people who never used Xitter. Why did a new company (at a moment of Mastodon initial release) copied already ancient and by then pointless limitations? Character limit, linear feed, tags in text, no advanced formatting etc. And then there are registration problem (where to register), the retention/safety problem (what if a benevolent admin of your instance nuked your account, now what?), the discovery problem etc. I'm permanently baffled at the decision process of Mastodon developers.
I initially read that as "Hacker News will reduce priority for AI driven content" and was wondering why it was announced on a random website instead of this one.
When people complain about the incessant Claude glazing in posts and comments totally dominating the content of the site - it always gets twisted into “people don’t like AI”
But really we are just sick of the fucking Claude ads. It’s non-stop. Should be illegal how much those fuckers advertise.
Just pretending that AI doesn't exist or doesn't matter is one way to go.
I think we might be getting close to an era where some people section off areas of land or the internet and ban AI and humanoid robots in that area. I know there are a lot of people who want that.
The problem is that AI is getting better and better at impersonating humans.
Eventually you may see a convergence, where the New Luddite Zoos are just more constrained variations of the normal Human Zoos. Enforced by superhuman AI.
Being aware about something is not the same as actively participating in that for work and is also different from doing it for education or entertainment.
It's literally not recommended right on the About page, along the lines of "you shouldn't ask for invite right after joining, hang around chat instead". Well, I've checked it. They are talking about Trump something or other. None of those users I know at any level. So what's that "hanging out" entails then? Go invade a chat between acquaintances and randomly rant about Trump? Yeah, that will surely establish a good outlook, lol. And IRC is an extremely unfriendly way of talking to people, for newcomers. How does one even injects himself in a wall of messages between people talking about something live? I've never seriously used IRC because of that and I doubt I will learn that in the future.
This is a system which pretends to be open, but in reality, one needs to dance to some unwritten rules to some unknown users for unclear time. Meh...
I'm open to suggestions. But I'm fairly sure that farming some ephemeral internet points in the unstructured real-time "forum" with a thousand participants in a single linear "topic" moderated with unwritten rules for months or years, all just to maybe get an invite to a yet another slightly better IT forum is the lowest possible priority on the internet for me. I have more quality content to read and watch than there is time. I would check it out if there was some sane registration process, maybe even a convoluted ones, with karma barriers, waitout times and limitations on the sub-forum access for newbies. But IRC? No, thanks. Discord scourge is annoying enough, and that is just worse Discord in every possible aspect.
Basically the hurdle is disproportionately absurd to the reward in this particular case.
I don't want to be the AI-hater guy, but I really like this. It was so much easier to find articles I really wanted to click on. In the first 30 articles I found quite a few, which is unusual for front-page HN these days.
There are no links to the comments, though! That's a bit of a showstopper for me.
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My interest in HN has decreased since it feels every other news is about AI
However I'll use the other links provided here, as it takes 10s to display
see (view on desktop)
https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews
for a more detailed example
And then there is flagging where certain content grts flagged much faster then other.
Reddit and HN share the same investors.
Unslop.news is still HN content and users.
Lobsters is like invite-only HN - maybe even more insufferable than this place in that regard.
People want something new, not the same corrupt people like Garry Tan and PG all the time.
I'm sick of YC and HN - they are barely technical and invest only in rich kids from other countries.
I personally want something entirely new - new admins.
Haha, no way.
Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657850
When people complain about the incessant Claude glazing in posts and comments totally dominating the content of the site - it always gets twisted into “people don’t like AI”
But really we are just sick of the fucking Claude ads. It’s non-stop. Should be illegal how much those fuckers advertise.
https://sprinklz.io/demo/hackerNews
here is a more detailed demo link (best viewed on desktop).
you can also visit the homepage at https://sprinklz.io if you want a more permanent account where you can create and save custom feeds
I think we might be getting close to an era where some people section off areas of land or the internet and ban AI and humanoid robots in that area. I know there are a lot of people who want that.
The problem is that AI is getting better and better at impersonating humans.
Eventually you may see a convergence, where the New Luddite Zoos are just more constrained variations of the normal Human Zoos. Enforced by superhuman AI.
So basically we'll end up with a version of the amish that are stuck in the early 2000s instead of the 1800s.
I don't think thats a common position on this site. It'd be more accurate to say that people want balanced content.
I use AI quite a lot in my work, but a ton of AI content is just thinly-veiled marketing and not particularly interesting, IMO.
This is a system which pretends to be open, but in reality, one needs to dance to some unwritten rules to some unknown users for unclear time. Meh...
Basically the hurdle is disproportionately absurd to the reward in this particular case.
Now they want exactly that when they don't like what they see?
It's understandable, at this point, to be weary of pelicans.
There are no links to the comments, though! That's a bit of a showstopper for me.