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The public facing internet is done. HN has been fairly resilient (I think) but even it is beginning to buckle. It’s been sliding for a while but LLMs are the death knell.

It was a fun 2 decades. Time to stick to private discords and real life friends from here on out, though.

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I don’t think HN is any more resilient. The new account captcha is fairly tame and, while I’m sure they have proxy detectors and other things in place, it doesn’t stop new accounts from posting and getting traction.

Someone suggested earlier this week that an invite system should be implemented (I think lobsters has it?) I doubt it would fly here, but yeah.

It's the community moderation that keeps HN resilient, i.e. many-humans-in-the-loop

That fell apart quickly due to sheer scale that AI operates at. Elsewhere in the thread a commenter mentioned a significant increase in Show HN. It is impossible to keep up. I wonder when HN will go down due to scaling issues.

You do see a lot more comments with AI tells in show-hn, I guess because not many view those so they aren't moderated out as quickly.

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