How come AI-related posts get so many points on HN?
Have we all decided to rebrand Hacker News as a platform for discussing AI? I think that the too many people love to discuss harshly about AI
Have we all decided to rebrand Hacker News as a platform for discussing AI? I think that the too many people love to discuss harshly about AI
Discussion Highlights (18 comments)
Argonautlabs
Its all about AI these days.
mdp2021
The submitter reduced the complexity of the situation to a whim, and misrepresented it. Reality is what it is, some heavier some lighter: we discuss reality, its details ranked by weight.
BLKNSLVR
It's the cutting edge and it's a bit wild west. There is a lot of room for innovative use cases that, whether actually practical or not, can be marketed and sold as practical.
fuzzfactor
Points aren't that meaningful but that's the part that is a "popularity contest." For what it's worth.
linzhangrun
Just like AI-related projects on GitHub always get an entirely different order of magnitude of stars. This is what people are focused on, outshines anything else.
uptownhr
Because if the idea is interesting, it's interesting.
mangeshmam1
AI discussions attract people who love it, who hate it and who are tired of hearing about it. All three groups end up opening the thread and commenting.
Leonard_of_Q
Because it is the hot new thing and HN is a hype machine. Before AI there were crypto and blockchain, after AI there will be something else.
Ekaros
I have no doubt there is lot of boosting going on. Essentially entire industry is build on boosting in many ways. So manipulating any available discussion platform is almost certain.
rich_sasha
If the latest AI swarm from OAI decided to astroturf HN, we probably would struggle to know. It seems easy relative to coordinating a massive hack of Hugging Face. So I half stopped paying attention to enthusiastic posts and comments about AI.
glimshe
It's self explanatory. People are very interested in it. Every new computing Wave comes with months or years of non-stop articles here. I remember when Twitter was released, people wouldn't talk about anything else for a while.
funkyfourier
Lately I have been finding myself thinking "let me check AI news" when going to check hacker news...
VCFundedGenYer
A lot of people here are AI brained, unfortunately.
feverzsj
Like most promotion posts here, colleague/friend upvotes to bring them to front page.
sph
The post-2022 Eternal September cohort and the deluge of new green accounts really love AI I’d rather use Lobsters if I had an invite (hint hint wink wink), they are much more moderate about LLMs if not mildly negative, which is a breath of fresh air after a few minutes on here.
mindaslab
Since, maaybe, everyone has the natural intelligence to think AI is cool, maybe not enough to explore stuff more.
chistev
Other things are discussed here too besides AI. Not all AI posts gather so many votes. Look at the front page now, how many submissions are about AI, tell me?
Henchman21
Because AI bots upvote them endlessly