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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by EmX_3000 on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:36PM (#50428725)
Almost everything in the new submissions is about AI and has been for a while now. Same with the links you see. It's getting to the point where non-AI tech news and information is completely drowned out. Stepping back month by month you can see how the AI content increases exponentially. Soon it'll be all you can read about it unless something is done. Perhaps a yc.ai site for AI-related news and discussion?
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by sixtyj on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:49PM (#50428882)
AI-related news could have special tag as “show HN” describes exactly what you can expect. “AI:”
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by jraph on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:04PM (#50430059)
You are reinventing the tags. And yes, tags for submissions would be nice, if users can add them. Especially if filtering on tags is made easy.
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by load-bearing on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:18AM (#50438256)
Lobsters has tags, they've had quite a drama with the "vibe coding" tag over the past few months. Some recent changes split the community in half, several good contributors left the site. Tags lead to witch-hunts and nobody is happy, at least over there.
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by wicknicks on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:08PM (#50429184)
I have been using https://www.unslop.news for non AI related content.
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by Aldipower on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:16PM (#50429308)
Me too, but if you click on the comments you land on HackerNews, and there you are again..
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by adelekeabdulgan on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:56PM (#50432824)
Is this meant to remove all AI related posts? or just AI written ones?
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by otherayden on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:18AM (#50440736)
unslop.news creator here! It doesn't detect posts written by AI, just posts where AI is the main theme of the story
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by otherayden on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:18AM (#50440740)
Glad you're getting some use out of it :)
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by coldpie on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:22PM (#50429391)
I have a browser extension that auto-clicks the Hide button for entries with AI-related terms in the title. Helps surface the interesting stories. https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by kenjackson on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:46PM (#50429754)
I don’t typically read “new”. I use the default HN page. And there only 5 of the 25 stories are AI related. That seems very reasonable.
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by tempestn on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:01PM (#50430006)
AI is still the new big thing. Remains to be seen whether it will eventually just become a relatively stable part of the substrate, like the internet, or if the curve will keep bending upward - in which case it will likely remain top of mind as long as human minds are relevant. My bet's on the former, but we'll see.
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by ubercore on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:14PM (#50430225)
At least we moved past blockchain and crypto! But at what cost...
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by tempestn on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:37PM (#50431703)
I suppose that demonstrates a third possibility, that the bubble will burst and the hype train will end. I'm personally more bullish on its usefulness than that, but again, I guess we'll see.
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by ubercore on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:08PM (#50432163)
I too doubt it will pop the way crypto did. The difference being, if you ignore the weird financing and ya know, societal collapse from AI, it's doing something useful!

But it sure felt like every HN story for a bit was crypto/blockchain/NFT related.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:07PM (#50435586)
Interestingly, HN by and large was extremely skeptical of crypto once it went from "cool technical project showing how you can implement a digital currency using shared consensus" to a bunch of speculation schemes. I recall numerous comments stating how "HN is biased against crypto" whenever someone pointed out all the problems with the tech.
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by ubercore on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:16AM (#50437863)
Fair point, but at the same time, it didn't stop the flood of posts and stories.
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by Shocka1 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:56AM (#50440425)
One of my personal favorites was when Brian Armstrong got on here pitching his idea that eventually turned into Coinbase and everyone shit on him. Being a bit of a skeptic to crypto myself at the time, I was lukewarm on the idea, but man I wish I had joined him. For me personally it was a really good learning experience to stay open to technology no matter what my personal biases are.

That being said, when the AI stuff started making an appearance, I fully embraced it. This went against my gut feeling being a mid-level curmudgeon software engineer who had cut my teeth on code more nights than I can count until 4am.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by jayd16 on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:31PM (#50431612)
I think AI is only part of the story. No one is investing in anything else. Even all the AI news is navel gazing and not really a lot of "this start-up used AI to 10x whatever."
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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by Emjayen on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:58AM (#50437742)
You have to remember it's been a long time since HN was burdened with intelligent discussion on the whole.

The userbase is predominantly your typical techbro and slop is their wet-dream; hence the endless spam on the topic.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by zombot on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:15AM (#50439234)
There is no escape from the noise.

Is there any escape from noise? — Negativland, 1987

Answer: No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Noise

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