Comment by satvikpendem
3 hours ago
I was also curious about that, I would've thought especially in 2010 the startup ethos would've been more prevalent on HN whereas these days it's more about AI and big tech.
3 hours ago
I was also curious about that, I would've thought especially in 2010 the startup ethos would've been more prevalent on HN whereas these days it's more about AI and big tech.
There was always tech content. I'd say it was even a more important part back in the days, and it was more diverse. There were always some trends (Ruby on Rails, Rust, etc.) but it was never like these days with LLM-related content which is almost all of the tech content. Because of that I've gone back to Reddit like two years ago, and now spend even more time there than here, which hadn't been the case in almost 15 years before that.
Where on reddit? It's even more LLM heavy than HN.
French subreddits, coffee subreddits, free software and free culture subreddits, specific programming languages subreddits, computer science subreddits, and yes, general tech subreddits which are also flooded with AI stuff, but I feel that it makes a significant difference that users can still downvote links there, which hasn't been possible in years on HN (not saying that it's a bad thing, just that it's a significant difference).