Why is news.ycombinator still relevant and devs keep coming back to it?

I come back because I am interested in what people think today about interesting topics that I might not even know exist. I don't chat casually with AI as I am not interested in an echo chamber of what I might have found interesting when the model was trained 6 months ago.

I don’t see how an LLM is a replacement for HN. Right now the top post is about hacking a computer with a speaker. This is not something I’ve ever thought about. How would I know to ask an LLM if this is a thing?

HN surfaces things that I don’t know I don’t know. That will always be a fundamental blind spot for any chat based interface.

Because smart people come here to read and write original thoughts and share things they find interesting.

There are not nearly enough places in the world where that happens.

I don't know what I don't know. It's the randomness of HN that has let me find new topics to learn about

The soothing, orange header.

Ha.. it's got a bling to it.