Comment by dylan604
1 year ago
"While I have no reason to doubt Daniel's good faith, it's hard to believe that HN users would be tired of LLM-related news."
If you believe that HN is a hive mind and all users must believe in the exact same things, then yes, this is probably hard to believe.
I however, am tired of LLM news, but I just simply ignore them as I'm well aware that many people here are very much interested in them. So at least an anecdotal response of one that some HN users are tired of LLM related news.
You might also be surprised that not all HN users like social media while some do. Some are very privacy conscious while others will freely post all of their everythings to anywhere. You might find it hard to believe that some lean left while others lean right with some even landing straight in the middle. Why you would think anything is hard to believe in this day and age is very strange to me.
That "While I have no reason" line has been quoted in six top-level comments so far, obviously it struck a nerve here.
It would be ultra-cool to have rough topic filters here, so I could just go to settings and hit a checkbox to ignore all the LLM-this and AI-that articles. Easier said than done, I'm sure.
Any time you paint with a broad brush with comments like that, you're going to miss some of the details. Looking at the time stamps of those comments shows they were pretty much at the same time. I use the phrase "group think" a lot, but intentionally do it to in part rabble rouse, but also to get those in the group think to maybe think and take a second to question if it truly is group think behind their current position.
> You might find it hard to believe that some lean left while others lean right
And then you get those of us who are simultaneously left-of-left and right-of-right...
I think this is an unnecessarily uncharitable reading, that the author assumes HN is a hive mind.
Replace "HN users" with "most HN users" (it's common to use general language when one's intention is to point out a trend in a population) and, as another person tired of AI/LLM news, I would also be surprised given how much popularity (upvotes, comments) HN users tended to give to those stories.