Anyone else gone completely off HN these days? (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 days ago by tetris11@feddit.uk to c/linux@programming.dev

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I still used to frequent it all the way up to last month, for some interesting discussions. But now... it's really become AI-pro^[Yes, I know it's been that way for a while, but either I'm feeling it more or the bots have gamed the website to the point that all you see are announces from big tech companies or people going on about their AI solutions] and any post that even hints about AI existentialism gets immediately cut down.

I find it hard to browse the site anymore, and lament the loss of expert tech discussion in my weekly routine.

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've found it intolerable for a long time, with its mixture of techbro conformism, fad-chasing and self-hype, but it's even worse these days. AI boosters are so obnoxious that they're actually doing valuable work putting people off AI.

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I’m personally glad it’s causing more people to notice instead of being sucked into the fad-chasing and thinking it’s real.

That has been Hacker News since the beginning, different people just notice at different times.

I met so many young people who wouldn’t shut up about things they barely knew about because they “heard it from the experts” on Hacker News… in 2013.

I might be misremembering, but I think DHH was celebrated as a coding genius constantly on HN back in 2006 when Rails was initially coming out. They loved that he was the ultimate tech bro. I wonder what they think of Omarchy…

It’s always been the same kind of garbage.

[-] sus@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Maybe there is something wrong with me but the "bad things are actually good because revealed preference" people and similar are the highlights of that site at this point. There is just something fascinating about it.

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