that is just simply wrong
I do not mind at all that someone creates an AI Image to decorate a blog article.
I'm also not directly offended if someone is using an LLM to write text.
And i find it a valid argument, that people who post on HN and get enough votes for content, people read and liked, that this can be enough as a filter or quality gate.
In another comment they mention that there is some kind of mechanism of sometimes showing new in the overview. But besides that, its filtered