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Comment by JSR_FDED | Hacker News Reader

I’m sad that it’s crowded out all the interesting stuff I used to love learning about on HN.

I'm sad that it's crowding some of those things out of existence, not just out of being talked about.

Not limited to here, of course. Net-new publications to ArXiv for some (most?) CS subcategories are >=90% about models, transformers, training, quantization, or some other directly related field, or how to apply these towards a different specialty.

you can at least block some of it out with ublock origin?

  news.ycombinator.com##td.title:has-text(/LLM|AI/i)

I use a bookmarklet for this: https://github.com/dan-lovelace/hn-blocklist

It doesn’t matter if nobody votes interesting stuff out of /new because the rest of HN only cares about AI posts.

This is completely normal when a new thing is in the third section of the technology adoption curve.[0] AI will either go away (unlikely) or become a footnote in posts about what people are doing with it in the next stage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle

Alternately: the trough of disillusionment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

HN needs an "AI" tab, and the ability to flag things as AI

Some of it very interesting, but maybe it shouldn't be on the home page unless it's a certain critical mass (similar to show HN)?

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