It’s a hot topic and so of course there are going to be a lot of posts. A few years back there were lots of blockchain posts.
I think anyone could pick a topic to which they feel a certain level of antipathy and build a case that there are too many posts of that type.
Of course if you just hate AI instinctively like my wife then yeah, I'm sure there's way too much AI content.
It has some technical articles in there.
It’s a genuine question, and whether your answer is yes or no I’d be interested to hear your opinion on why.
My opinion is it’s unlikely that human-crafted code will have the same inherent value that human crafted typography does, for all sorts of reasons to do with the way we can consume physical artefacts of language vs the way we consume code.
But I’ll also admit that my thinking in this - as regards code - is not particularly nuanced because I commission code rather than write it, so I’m interested in “does it do the job effectively” vs “is it inherently beautiful”.
I think craft as process is psychologically different from standards as professional identity.
By which I guess we are talking “personal code projects that don’t necessarily serve a commercial end”?
Professional artists don’t always ignore the commercial aspect of their work. But often those projects allow making work that is not driven by commercial concern.
That doesn’t make an artist’s paying work any less art when an artist considers making art the important outcome rather than the made artifacts.
Edit: 10 minutes after this comment I checked the front page and had to hide another half-dozen posts.
The combination has sapped away any interest I might have had in pivoting to an AI career.
Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN
Ask HN: Request to add an [AI] tag to posts?
(Side note on usage: Dunno whether OP is a native English speaker or not, but I think I would have put that as "Are you tired of all the LLM posts on HN?" Yes, it's only a tiny definite article -- but idiomatically, it changes the meaning from an absolute "Are you tired of each and every LLM post on HN?" to a more general-collective "Are you tired of the huge amount of LLM posts on HN?". And isn't that really what we're tired of? There might still be some few of them we could tolerate.)
Especially comments on productivity boosts and outright lies when someone “builds a few side projects in the last month with AI”. It feels either like a sponsored roleplay or a competence level where building a jsx form is a side project.
I'm old enough to have watched the internet become taken from granted despite how fundamentally it changed our lives. Now, I'll watch humanity create intelligence on demand, transform our lives again, and take that for granted, too.
This isn't bad, either. It feels like true progress for people to become bored with things that would have astonished us only a few years ago.
And then politics, there is a guidelines about no or little politics submissions on HN. There used to be a grey area where it is politics Relating to tech gets a pass. Somewhere along the line this was gone.
LLM's are certainly more interesting now, and extremely useful coding tools.
Re the political stuff: this is a perennial question on HN but it hasn't changed in years. There's fluctuation in what shows up, of course, but the baseline hasn't changed, and in particular there's no longer-term trend making HN more political. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... if you (or anyone) want more explanation.
HN absolutely sucks right now. It's nearing r/politics levels of suckage.
LLM is the new hotness. It’ll fade as the tech consolidates and becomes commodity.
What kind of question is that?
Certainly I get new ideas of what is possible and what experiments people are trying with them all the time just by lurking hackernews.
As with all things you need to cut through the signal/noise.
I think opportunities to engage with the unfamiliar is one reason for HN’s stickiness among HNers.
If LLM’s are familiar at a professional level, then internet status points aside, engaging with LLM’s at a “lay level” is probably not why HN sticks for you.
Even if many other people are excited by them…particularly since endless-September is a feature not a bug on HN.
Submitting content that interests you is the most reliable way to get content that interests you on HN. Good luck.