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- That’s really sad to hear, coming from someone who just joined hn cuz I wanted something differentby augustkjdart
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660482
There’s this post from a few weeks ago, if you just wanna filter out all the AI content
by sammy0910 - > Where's the fun stuff? Where's the joy?
It's there, you just have to look harder.
Like this story about Vecos, which fits your definition of "fun stuff", was posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984984
by d3Xt3r - I feel that. Not that I was around for this, but look back to the demo scene. You used to be able to show off a cool animation that you made using a seldom-used feature on a Commodore 64, or console, and that was a really cool thing to look at.
Now it's people talking about how they orchestrated a bunch of agents. Its not fun.
by platevoltage - I think there are real needs that go unaddressed, while people create solutions to non-needs, because they are "cool and exciting" even if they address no other need than being "cool and exciting" (which skyrockets your planned IPO) until the market decides that it solves nothing else, and creates even bigger problems, especially environmental.
Those real needs won't go away. Until addressed.
What are they? Find out add address them.
by k310 - Maybe this will cheer you up? Selected fun things in HN's intended spirit:
We wanted to do things like this for ages but never had time. Justin at YC has been nailing it (I'm biased, of course) and a bunch of us have been enjoying nominating candidates for this treatment - a bit like HN's own second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), but through this different channel.
Anyone who wants to send a nomination, please do! hn@ycombinator.com is best.
by dang - As some others have mentioned, the /new page is a better source for the quirkier stuff. I'd recommend checking out the HN blogs newsletter, which rounds up a lot of those types of things since they're items that were posted to personal blogs: https://hnblogs.substack.comby bthallplz
- I’ve switched to /new rather than front page, because the good hacker stuff is being lost in all the boring manager stuff that has a stranglehold on the front page. But part of what you’re seeing is that the HN front page resembles HBR rather uncomfortably these days: endless posts about the latest developments in management theory and practices, except about AI minions instead of human ones. Yawn. I’d rather scroll through the raw feed where I can find amazing things like the plasma antenna from this morning :Dby altairprime