Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning

Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by SirFatty on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @08:09AM (#47047117)

"One of the great benefits of AI tools, is they allow people to build stuff, even if they have no ideas or knowledge."

Wait, what? That's a great benefit?

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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by dewey on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @08:14AM (#47047159)

Sure, there's many examples (I have a few personal ones as well) where I'm just building small tools and helpers for myself which I just wouldn't have done before because it would take me half a day. Or non-technical people at work that now just build some macros and scripts for Google Sheets that they would've never done before to automate little things.

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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by evilduck on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @11:00PM (#47057007)

I'm in the same boat. I use AI to generate tons of small things for work. None of it is shareable online because it's unique to my workplace and it's not some generic reusable tool, and for the most part the scripts are boring. Their most interesting attribute is how little effort they took, not their originality or grandness of scale.

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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by jbreckmckye on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @08:19AM (#47047196)

I am being slightly sarcastic

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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by zahlman on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @04:00PM (#47053264)

For those who want to have the stuff built, yes, it absolutely is.

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