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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by jack_pp on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @06:24AM (#47046291)
I suspect the OG, grass fed, organic, gluten free, no AI Show HN will be dead.

If I used LLMs to generate a few functions would I be eligible for it? What constitutes "built this with no/ minimal AI"?

Maybe we should have a separate section for 80%+ vibe coded / agent developed.

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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by argee on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @02:57PM (#47052368)
HN already has a mechanism for flagging posts. If flagging low effort/trivial show HN posts were normalized, I suspect it would work just fine: if a human can't easily decide whether or not to flag it, they likely wouldn't.

As dang posted above, I think it's better to frame the problem as "influx of low quality posts" rather than framing policies having to do explicitly with AI. I'm not sure I even know what "AI" is anymore.

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