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- Didn't notice it - I worry about more about the slop blog posts themselves.
Are those comments ranking on the top spots?
by swah - My take is HN is changing to adapt to current changes to the hard question:
Thirty years ago, Baysian generated poetry was intellectually interesting enough that Paul Graham put some in one of his programming books…yes, it made it through an actual professional editor and the publisher’s money was spent printing the poetry on a few pages instead of printing something else.What separates intellectually interesting AI from uninteresting AI, right now?A ten years ago, code-completion was intellectually interesting.
A five years ago, images from text was.
Today, none of them generally are except occasionally at the leading edge.
Or to put it another way, there’s an ice machine on the airplane taking you to Dallas Fort Worth and we just take it for granted.
by brudgers - Smaller forums.
I came here from Slashdot, after it turned into too much of a cesspool. And HN was a wonderful place. But over a decade, it slowly became less wonderful. More people showed up just to argue, rather than to have curious conversations. More zealots and shills, less thought.
I think what happened is that HN became a place that was worth influencing. Some people decided they'd do that rather than enjoying it for what it was. The more people on HN, the more valuable it was to manipulate, and so the more people did.
So one solution is just to find smaller forums - ones that aren't big enough to be worth trying to manipulate. That doesn't same HN, though. It doesn't get it back to what I loved.
by AnimalMuppet - I've accepted that the "Old Internet", the one in which most content was clearly human generated (for better or for worse) is dead.
On the flip side, the AI infestation makes the New Internet, at least for me, less addictive.
by shahbaby