Comment by mg
1 month ago
For me, the appeal of HN is the DIY attitude.
In that regard AI fits the bill well. Because many of the AI related posts are about tools one can immediately tinker with.
While a new type of laptop cooling might become interesting once the laptops come out, the news is not as interesting to me as a new LLM or agent that I can experiment with right away.
Are posts like that really DIY? They're more like increasingly elaborate and convoluted ways of getting something else to do it for you
In the same sense that using a 3D printer is DIY. Moreso than buying a thing off the interwebs; less so than carving or casting your own thing.