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- Hacker News
- This is a good project!by kingkemol888
- I tried to click on the link at work and it got blocked as "pornography".by Vaslo
- Who would do this project and not use an LLM to classify what counts as "AI"?by lupire
- it would be cool to use embeddings to categorize into like 10-20 categories and get a giant pie chartby sharemywin
- Not a bad idea. I'd look at creating a separate page for embeddings. Crypto and NFT's would be the next best candidates to add. Something for me to work on over time.by beekthos
- I expected this to call out the number of links that are obviously vibe coded, like itself!
If you see:
- ALL CAPS subheaders
- a light beige background
- burnt sienna anchor and/or highlight text
- a "• LIVE" (or really any pulsing • symbol with an ALL CAPS follow-up)
- tons of variation in font sizes (this one has 15 different text sizes!)
- more typically, a lot of overexplaining
...you know it's vibe'd, specifically with Claude!
by lanewinfield - Every technical topic involves AI now. Even if it's about why the ancient Greeks didn't turn their steam engines to industrial use - the AI's should be researching the details. We might as well ask which topics involve humans or use language.by waldrews
- Related:
How Much of HN is AI? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49435728
- Yes! This post was the inspiration and is credited in the footer.by beekthos
- It's remarkable how stable 20-30% show HN concentration is after late 2022, for the extended stats.by rzmmm
- The Show HN volume went 805/month to 4,199/month over that same time period, so from 3.2% of all submissions to 13.4%, while HN overall only grew 1.3x. So the flat ~24% held through a 5x expansion in the denominator, which makes it a lot more interesting honestly.by beekthos
- Interestingly, we can deduce that the actual percentage will always be higher since not everyone uses those labels/words.by noxss
- At first I thought about how many posts were written by AI
- Multiple times authors have been asked about AI usage on HN, because readers (rightfully) suspected it was AI written. I don't have a problem with AI written articles, or assisted.
But then the authors lie or make ludicrous excuses for why their article "sounds" like AI. Then I check with Pangram and yep. It is completely AI written.
You get a few free checks on Pangram each day or so. Just start checking and encourage people to be honest.
AI has its place. Lying about it and misrepresenting it makes everyone dislike AI more, even as they use it themselves.
- Most of the time things make sense in my head until someone points it out haha. I should have written it as "related to AI" or something like that.by beekthos
- Would there be some way to see what percentage of the front page meets those qualifications? I don't browse /new very often, so I have less of an idea of how representative that is. It would be interesting to see if they trend similarly.
Thanks for the cool project!
- Yeah, that's probably the main limitation right now. This is measuring /new, so it's every submission rather than just the stuff that makes the front page.
lcamtuf's survey (linked in the footer) was looking at the front page, and the number there was quite a bit higher. So there's likely some effect from voting, although I haven't dug into that yet.
I think Algolia has a way to filter for front-page stories, which should make it pretty easy to add. I haven't tested that yet though but will certainly look into it!
by beekthos - The topic of an article being AI and an "AI-Generated Article" are two completely different things.by Dwedit
- I don't believe that is their point.
- Agreed it is confusing and as I mentioned earlier in a different comment, it made sense in my head reading it until someone else pointed it out. Looks like they've amended it to make it clear.by beekthos
- Agreed. "How much of Hacker News is about AI?" would have been a more accurate title.