alt Hacker NewsHN is a reflection of the industry and we're at peak hype-cycle at the moment. I use this when I need a break https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai.
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I guess "hype cycle" is an accurate description, but it feels overly negative, in the sense that we now have a revolutionary technology that's still quite young and moving fast, and folks everywhere are trying to figure out how to leverage it, both to do new things, and to deal with the problems it causes. So it just feels like a high-energy time where we're going to have a billion ideas, most of them will suck, and we'll eventually find out where the real winners are.
Given that context, having a hacker site cover what's happening with that revolution makes sense. All that said, I agree with OP that it does drown out other cool things happening, but that's just how mass psychology works.
This is so refreshing.
Almost everything in top/new/best is an interesting read. Either I don't know anything about the topic ("...the spanning tree protocol") or am seriously interested in the topic ("Remembering Hong Kong", "Automattic's board forces CEO..."). None of these made to frontpage over the last two days AFAIK.
This is just asking for a parody-site that displays literally an empty page though.
It's more complicated than that. This place has changed.
The biggest tell is reposting something interesting from a year or two ago that received hundreds of upvotes. Now it will get 2 or three upvotes whilst "lulz Trump" /r/politics style culture war BS will be immediately hurled up and onto the front page.
It would be cool if one could visualise (graph wise) the number of posts around different hypes (eg. crypto, not sure what else was prominent like AI) throughout the history of HN.
Ironically this thread became Yet Another AI Discussion. Really its just the agi takes that are the most useless and annoying.
Fascinating.
It would seem OP is spot on. I just used this and it reduced the front page of 30 posts to 14.
People have been saying we've been "at peak hype-cycle" for years
Thank you so much for sharing this
thanks, rebinded my Tridactyl shortcut for HN to this.
Hero
This is great! I hope it was vibe coded
There's also https://unslop.news, which removes just the posts about AI, rather than all posts that mention it at all