alt Hacker NewsIt's really hurting the brand. I can't remember the last time I bothered to even check that index. I used to check it all the time.
It's really hurting the brand. I can't remember the last time I bothered to even check that index. I used to check it all the time.
/newest is pretty grim, too. Go there and click any link, and odds are you won't even need to read the contents to know it's AI generated, because you'll immediately be met by one of:
- A landing page that looks exactly like every single AI generated landing page ever, I don't even need to describe it, you already know what it looks like
- An article or blog post headered by an image with the Gemini logo in the corner
- A Github repository with CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md and/or 50 large commits made in the span of a day
I'd estimate that more than half of new submissions now fall into one of the above categories.