How come AI-related posts get so many points on HN?

How come AI-related posts get so many points on HN?

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  • Just like AI-related projects on GitHub always get an entirely different order of magnitude of stars. This is what people are focused on, outshines anything else.
  • Because it is the hot new thing and HN is a hype machine. Before AI there were crypto and blockchain, after AI there will be something else.
  • Other things are discussed here too besides AI. Not all AI posts gather so many votes.

    Look at the front page now, how many submissions are about AI, tell me?

  • It's the cutting edge and it's a bit wild west. There is a lot of room for innovative use cases that, whether actually practical or not, can be marketed and sold as practical.
  • It's self explanatory. People are very interested in it. Every new computing Wave comes with months or years of non-stop articles here. I remember when Twitter was released, people wouldn't talk about anything else for a while.
  • The post-2022 Eternal September cohort and the deluge of new green accounts really love AI

    I’d rather use Lobsters if I had an invite (hint hint wink wink), they are much more moderate about LLMs if not mildly negative, which is a breath of fresh air after a few minutes on here.

    by sph
  • If the latest AI swarm from OAI decided to astroturf HN, we probably would struggle to know. It seems easy relative to coordinating a massive hack of Hugging Face.

    So I half stopped paying attention to enthusiastic posts and comments about AI.

  • AI discussions attract people who love it, who hate it and who are tired of hearing about it. All three groups end up opening the thread and commenting.

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