It's the cutting edge and it's a bit wild west. There is a lot of room for innovative use cases that, whether actually practical or not, can be marketed and sold as practical.
Just like AI-related projects on GitHub always get an entirely different order of magnitude of stars. This is what people are focused on, outshines anything else.
A significant portion of the posts are of the type "new version of model X was just released" or "I just built something by prompting an LLM a few times".
Latest papers from DeepSeek and DeepMind on the other hand are rarely discussed and if ever posted the comment section quickly turns into political discussions or my bigcorp is better than your bigcorp wars.
Most people here aren't experts in the underlying technology. But they do work with it regularly and are interested in the latest developments in the tooling.
AI discussions attract people who love it, who hate it and who are tired of hearing about it. All three groups end up opening the thread and commenting.
There will be on HN. Artisinal Intelligence, Biological Inference, Living Local Models, whatever. If the AI hype turns out to be real there will be a counter-revolution where the usual suspects start pushing their abacus-enhanced lifestyles, guaranteed AI-free.
I have no doubt there is lot of boosting going on. Essentially entire industry is build on boosting in many ways. So manipulating any available discussion platform is almost certain.
If the latest AI swarm from OAI decided to astroturf HN, we probably would struggle to know. It seems easy relative to coordinating a massive hack of Hugging Face.
So I half stopped paying attention to enthusiastic posts and comments about AI.
It's self explanatory. People are very interested in it. Every new computing Wave comes with months or years of non-stop articles here. I remember when Twitter was released, people wouldn't talk about anything else for a while.
More likely the people on HN are FOMO and theyre like the zombies in the Z movie and will climb over one another to hype up the technology so they can overrun the defenses.
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For what it's worth.
A significant portion of the posts are of the type "new version of model X was just released" or "I just built something by prompting an LLM a few times".
Latest papers from DeepSeek and DeepMind on the other hand are rarely discussed and if ever posted the comment section quickly turns into political discussions or my bigcorp is better than your bigcorp wars.
(Edit: and it is evident in this very page.)
AI gonna lead to the destruction of the internet
So I half stopped paying attention to enthusiastic posts and comments about AI.
Look at the front page now, how many submissions are about AI, tell me?