Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by fainpul on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:04AM
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People who got "enabled" by AI to produce stuff, just need to learn to keep their "target audience of one"-projects to themselves. Right now it feels like those fresh parents who show every person they meet the latest photos / videos of their baby, thinking everybody will find them super cute and interesting.
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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by marginalia_nu on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @11:25AM
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Yeah, I think it's sort of an etiquette thing we haven't arrived at yet.
It's a bit parallel to that thing we had in 2023 where dinguses went into every thread and proudly announced what ChatGPT had to say about the subject. Consensus eventually become that this was annoying and unhelpful.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by CamperBob2 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:19PM
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At times, it seems like the only thing that has changed is that the dinguses don't bother crediting ChatGPT.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by disiplus on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @03:16PM
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Tell that to linkedin group. they keep doing that, they dont credit it, but i assume at least 60% of other people can tell.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by marginalia_nu on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @05:09AM
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To be fair, linkedin has always been filled to the brim with unhinged slop, even before AI was a thing.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by heliumtera on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @06:44PM
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>went into every thread and proudly announced what ChatGPT.
That is what Show HN has become. Nobody cares what code Claude shat in response to a random person prompt. If I cared, I would be prompting Claude myself.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by 3vidence on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:13PM
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My manager at work still does this in work chats and it drives me a bit crazy. If I want to k own what an LLMs take on the subject is I can just go ask it.
The chat is for people to discuss people stuff.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by 8note on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:47PM
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is it? im very happy with my cad tools, but im only going to show off the physical stuff i make with them, rather than the tools along the way.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by barrenko on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:10PM
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Like when Instagram / digital photography, that is not what you will get but you will see a lot of revealing body parts.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by wreath on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:53PM
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More like the fresh parents who start schooling everyone else on how to parent…
Some folks definitely give off a "How do you do, fellow coders?" vibe
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by protocolture on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:59PM
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>People who got "enabled" by AI to produce stuff, just need to learn to keep their "target audience of one"-projects to themselves.
This is what I do. I have tons of cool (to me) shit I have built with LLM assistance. I only wheel my dumb stuff out if its specifically relevant to someone.
But I am also not doing it as a resume hobby, just as a hobby. A lot of people are trying to jump from hobby to career. The recognition is the point for some.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by ch4s3 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:03PM
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I get that, and mostly agree but some people will really have the cutest kitten the most beautiful sunset photo. Hopefully we figure out how to discern as fast as we can churn.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning
by ehnto on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:37PM
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You get diminishing returns up there though, the cutest cat photo in the world would look remarkably similar to the next 2,000 photos of cats in the cutest cat photos leaderboard. I feel we should filter on diverse topics rather than best by metrics, perhaps we'll want to discern on concern.