The Erlang front page was nice, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11

This is like when cryptocurrency was in full hype cycle, but even more severe as it touches every inch of the industry.

I thought the last round was the (JS) framework wars

I remember those days! And Elixir/Phoenix had to be hyped in every 5th post.

> if it's not AI, it'll be something else, until the industry moves on

True, but I think the point I am trying to make is that amybe YC could start curating this content somehow to give those easily-drowned-out articles a visibility bump.

I miss these times!

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>> At least the frontpage is no longer filled with Ruby and Ruby on Rails projects anymore

Thank god.

That's a hot take. AI has fundamentally shifted things. Start-ups can start up 10x faster, and HN is start-up flavored.

If people quit talking about AI, it'll be because it's become foundational infrastructure, so it's not the primary focus of the articles, but just the atmosphere they all exist within, like the computer, or the internet.

HN has a lot of Ruby posts because it was, and still is, a really good language and ecosystem for making web applications, and most of the companies at the time were web startups. It's a solid language, still one of the better ones for making real, practical web apps.

If you don't want to see Ruby posts and AI posts, why are you here? Do you realize that you have control over what media you consume? A lot of HN readers like Ruby and we like AI and we would like to have one place to do that without all the negativity, hatred, and low quality comments coming from people that don't care about the things we care about.