Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe

Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by bityard on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:56PM (#50431014)

Lobste.rs is quite different from HN, though, so I think it's fair to warn people in advance:

HN allows anything that "hackers" might find interesting. On lobste.rs, anything that's not directly programming-related is generally off-topic.

HN encourages self-promotion, lobste.rs discourages it.

Until recently lobste.rs was very actively anti-AI. Newer rules have rolled that back somewhat, but there is still a rather vocal anti-AI contingent that is not afraid to pick fights with people who openly admit to being interested in machine learning as a technology.

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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by nailer on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:39PM (#50432615)

> Newer rules have rolled that back somewhat, but there is still a rather vocal anti-AI contingent that is not afraid to pick fights with people who openly admit to being interested in machine learning as a technology.

HN does the same thing with blockchain. Someone earlier wrote "People only ever work for cryptocurrency companies in the first place because they're scammers themselves" - which would include nearly everyone anyone in the finance or payments industries.

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