Comment by MyFirstSass
14 hours ago
Hackernews has also been completely co-opted by boosters.
So much that i don't really visit anymore after 15 years of use.
It's a bizarre situation with billions in marketing and PR, astroturfing and torrents of fake news with streams of comments beneath them with zero skepticism and an almost horrifying worship of these billion dollar companies.
Something completely flipped here at some point, i don't know if it's because YC is also heavily pro these companies, and embedded with them, requiring YC applicants to slop code their way in, then cheering about it.
Either way it's incredibly sad and remind me of the worst casino economy, nft's, crypto, web3 while there's actually an interesting core, regex on steroids with planning aspects, but it's constantly oversold.
I say that as a daily user of Claude Max for over a year.
I haven't been able to find any communities with as high of a signal-to-noise ratio and breadth of experiences as HN, especially not public ones that one can stumble their way into without knowing a guy / joining a clique
Heh that’s a very low bar though
> Heh that’s a very low bar though
This is a low bar: ?
> communities with as high of a signal-to-noise ratio and breadth of experiences as HN, especially not public ones that one can stumble their way into without knowing a guy / joining a clique
If this is such a low bar, then how come there's only HN? Can you name another? 10? 100? Because I can't.
I think the fact that AI is finally at a point where it seems to be more useful that annoying, it's easy to be overly optimistic. I've only been using Claude for a few months (I did try 20x, but fell back to 5x), and it's genuinely been a productivity multiplier. That said, the way I've worked with it is very different than me coding on my own... I spend way more time planning, there's a lot more documentation and testing that is part of the output and even then I still find a lot of issues.
I'm also mournful for those just starting out, that may lean so much on these tools that they may never have true proficiency to be able to spot issues with fitness and quality. I see people running half a dozen or more agents and know there is no way they're doping any kind of meaningful QA/QC on that output.
HN is a tech incubator's news blog. OpenAI literally got its start as a YCombinator project as part of YC Research.
Sam Altman of OpenAI was the president of YC for years.
Like, what did you expect mon ami?
I've noticed a lot of astroturfing lately. It really bothers me, because it was kind of my last bastion of sanity for online tech discourse. Every forum I've used is now full of marketing and dishonesty by bots, paid shills, and bad actors.