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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by anonymous908213 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:21PM (#47050079)
The worst part of the death of Show HN is that most of these people are so allergic to putting any effort in that they can't even write the description themselves. The repo's readme, the ShowHN post, and often even their comments will all be fully LLM-generated. This doesn't even take skill! Writing good marketing copy might take skill, but ShowHN isn't (supposed to be) marketing. Just describe the project in your own words, I promise it's not that hard. The bar is so low that even copy-pasting whatever you prompted to the LLM would be more interesting than the LLM's output. Although maybe it's better this way, since it makes it easier to filter out the garbage instantly.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by password4321 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @01:11PM (#47050808)
> often even their comments will all be fully LLM-generated

This really bothers me, coming here asking for human feedback (basically: strangers spending time on their behalf) then dumping it into the slop generator pretending it is even slightly appreciated. It wouldn't even be that much more work to prompt the LLM to hide its tone (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393992#46396486) but even that is too much.

Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by nobody_r_knows on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:35PM (#47050314)
> I promise it's not that hard.

How many non-native English speakers are on HN? If it's more than 30%, why should they have to use a whole new language if they can just let an LLM do it in a natural sounding way.

Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by kjkjadksj on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:37PM (#47050333)
I’d rather read broken english than LLM output.
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by dang on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:40PM (#47050378)
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by nobody_r_knows on Friday February 20, 2026 @08:46AM (#47087973)
You can't even tell, bro. This comment was generated by AI. Can you tell? Hardly. You're like a bouncer telling people they can't wear warm underwear. How on earth will you possible know, care, or tell?
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by seanw444 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:46PM (#47050454)
Ditto
Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by stevedonovan on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @01:04PM (#47050703)
You could write in the language you are most eloquent in and prompt a bot to do a faithful translation.

Post both versions

Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by dougiejones on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @02:56AM (#47058441)
As an example, I don't know if this person/machine read this thread or was reached out to by the moderators but they seemingly first had an empty post and reacted to feedback and generated a useless "backstory" to their show hn post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036610