Comment by antonymoose
7 days ago
It all depends if you care about the tech side of HN or the startup side of HN. I love the tech articles above all else and could easily do without the general trend fluff.
With that said, I don’t find the AI posts nearly as bad as the Blockchain era.
I don’t remember blockchain ever being as big as AI here. More annoying? Yes.
As annoyed as I am with the constant deluge of uninteresting AI/LLM articles, I would much rather see a split between tech and startup news. I think that's a lasting and useful distinction.
Isn't topical subcommunities just Reddit?
The userbase overlap is probably > 50%. To many people HN is just another subreddit.
Personally, I'm more interested in the think-pieces than the actual news.
(And I could very much do without the content that revolves around US politics. Even if it draws me in sometimes.)
Lobste.rs provides that distinction.
And it's invite-only, so it's hardly an alternative.
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A socially awkward speakeasy with deranged moderation?
Where do I sign up?
A forum that is exclusionary-by-design has already failed.