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Re:Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version ... by aurareturn on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:29PM (#50347695)
HN reminds me a lot of Instagram.

People complain about AI generated content, then proceeds to give a dancing cat AI reel 1 million likes.

People here complain about vibe coded apps, then proceed to upvote this to the front page.

Re:Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version ... by washedup on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:40PM (#50347763)
It's almost as if there are different groups that have different views and upvote different things.
Re:Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version ... by dang on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:45PM (#50347795)
washedup is right, of course, that the community is many people with many views (though the point should be made less snarkily). Of course HN disagrees with itself since it's not a self to begin with.

I think there's another factor: it takes time to find the best ways of using such new tools. This is something the community is working out slowly (as is society generally) and this is naturally a lagging phenomenon.

Seeing generated sites like OP and karpathy's HackerTube (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510) which look good and don't have the obvious-LLM sameiness that so many others do, is an interesting step along this way.

Re:Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version ... by aurareturn on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:05PM (#50347923)
My point is that people will complain about GenAI but they actually love/enjoy AI generated content or projects as long as they fit what they're looking for.
Re:Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version ... by wiseowise on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:49PM (#50347822)
Goomba.
Re:Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version ... by lagrange77 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:54AM (#50348572)
It's not about the tools.

I also regularly complain about AI generated content. I do that mostly, because it's often either

- extremely uninspired design and UX wise (e.g. the classical beige/serif AI slop website),

- full of obvious and stupid mistakes (e.g. those shitty infographics on social media),

- just mimics the real thing, but misses the actual purpose (e.g. again those shitty infographics on social media)

- or is ridiculously overloaded with features and documentation

That's repelling to me, because it screams that the human behind it is himself lazy and uninspired. It feels like a waste of time to even consume something, that the author or developer wasn't willing to put actual effort and thought into.

But that's an artefact of how the author is using the tool and presenting the results.

It's not an inherent property of AI use itself. HackerTimes for example doesn't feel uninspired or bland. And i like it.