No shame in doing something that already exists for yourself. But at this point I think it wouldn't be asked too much to just ask your favorite agent to check first if someone already implemented your idea in the past and then consider if your vision is really distinct enough to warrant anther instance of whatever you want to build.

Maybe that can happen through custom instructions. But I guess, by default the agent will happily do extra work and spend lots of tokens on “redundant” projects.

We're going to enter an era of fragmentation and silos like never imagined before. It'll be terribly wonderful, with everyone getting exactly what they ask for.

You're probably right, but i think this is a human-led issue, not one brought on by tech, though it does exacerbate it.

As someone committed to transdisciplinary work, I think the tech also really supports this - i can do lit reviews on topics and cross-reference much more easily, which gives me more time for reading and thinking (both of which are also falling out of fashion, but that's another story)

There is nothing particularly special about building something first.

True, but imo there's also nothing particulrarly special about telling your agent to (re)build something that already existed (in various flavours) before.

I packed the thought into "consider if your vision is really distinct enough": make it better, make it weird, or make it recreationally (i.e. by hand). Make it opinionated, in Minecraft, whatever, but give it at least some new substance.

It's also fine to do Hacker Tube or Hacker Times (it's really not about this specific instance) for the 100th time, but if nothing else distinguishes it from the others than "I wanted to have one too", maybe it's not the curiosity-inspiring thing to share on HN we should strive for.

None of these are listed in the guidelines on HN.

Nor was it implied. I agree with the poster, especially in the case of point-and-release agentic coding. Not saying it's to be banned if there's no additional substance, but worth asking yourself what you've contributed apart from token spend.

Subjective opinions. People can do whatever they want.

Yep, thank you simsla.

My specific examples aren't listed, but the guidelines on what to submit support my point I think:

> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

You seem to be confused. Every opinion on here is subjective, and no one was suggesting that the poster should be arrested.

I was merely pointing at how some people seems to have some impression that the idea should be original and not a duplicate etc as if it's some sort of objective truth that they have to found out.

In reality it's just some false belief they have.

There is no guarantee that the first implementation of the idea will be the first to receive reception.

Also it's perfectly fine to have someone post a duplicate implementation of an idea and get no reception as well.

I actually liked https://thefrontpage.dev/

A shame that it broke a few weeks ago. These projects tends to get abandoned after a while.

It's been working fine for me most days. I came here from there just now.

Yup, I specifically only linked working sites, since not all I checked were online anymore.

HN keeps reinventing HN-flavored things.

I built this to aggregate all the aggregators (like HackerTube, Hackerbooks etc.) that were popular a few days ago (they go back to 2011, at least).

https://hackeragain.com

I was hoping the lists would start from a count of 0

wow quite a list - my version of it is https://thedailyfront.johnnys.page which I built for myself, to read it on my tablet on my way to the office. A new issue is generated automatically every morning

damn the vibecoded ones look a lot better

Is that all that surprising? We're comparing hobby projects created by a single developer, in a medium that requires multiple skills to master, to a machine generated site that can draw upon the collective knowledge of humanity. (I think that is a fair comparison here, since pretty much everything known about web development would be documented online.) Comparing it to a team of developers doing it professionally would likely lead to a different outcome.

I quite liked https://hackernewstimes.com because it let's you see the articles and HN comments in a split pane.

yeah but to be fair, those all just show posts with the same title. This one actually come up with pretty good headlines and summaries based on the articles themselves and I think actually are quite good for LLM-written content. It probably took some effort to get it to match NYT tone/style in writing and I found some of the headlines much better than the original ones though some of the charm of HN is titles that are unclear enough to make you go to the article only to find it's not about what you thought.

Might appreciate a print version of this mailed to my house :)