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1. Argonautlabs · 1789801582 · focus · HN ↗

   Its all aboit AI these days.
2. mdp2021 · 1789803589 · focus · HN ↗

   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.

3. BLKNSLVR · 1789803844 · focus · HN ↗

   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.
4. fuzzfactor · 1789804145 · focus · HN ↗

   Points aren't that meaningful but that's the part that is a "popularity contest."

   For what it's worth.

5. linzhangrun · 1789804831 · focus · HN ↗

   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.
6. uptownhr · 1789805093 · focus · HN ↗

   Because if the idea is interesting, it's interesting.

   1. throwa356262 · 1789806035 · focus · HN ↗

      Dont know about that.

      A significant portion of the posts are of the type "new version of model X was just released" or "I just built something by prompting an LLM a few times".

      Latest papers from DeepSeek and DeepMind on the other hand are rarely discussed and if ever posted the comment section quickly turns into political discussions or my bigcorp is better than your bigcorp wars.

      1. mdp2021 · 1789807086 · focus · HN ↗

         That of HN is a largely non-random public, not a fully selected public. Of course Paretian distributions are also valid here.
      2. AndrewDucker · 1789811220 · focus · HN ↗

         Most people here aren't experts in the underlying technology. But they do work with it regularly and are interested in the latest developments in the tooling.
7. mangeshmam1 · 1789805485 · focus · HN ↗

   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.
8. Leonard_of_Q · 1789805602 · focus · HN ↗

   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.

   1. Madmallard · 1789806171 · focus · HN ↗

      There won't be an after AI

      1. Leonard_of_Q · 1789812364 · focus · HN ↗

         There will be on HN. Artisinal Intelligence, Biological Inference, Living Local Models, whatever. If the AI hype turns out to be real there will be a counter-revolution where the usual suspects start pushing their abacus-enhanced lifestyles, guaranteed AI-free.

         1. Madmallard · 1789836317 · focus · HN ↗

            Doubt it

            AI gonna lead to the destruction of the internet

            1. Leonard_of_Q · 1789994550 · focus · HN ↗

               It won't. It will probably change it a lot but kill? The internet is a network of interconnected networks, why would "AI" kill that? Just because 98% of the end nodes turn out to be slop doesn't mean that the remaining 2% ceases to exist? If that were the case then the ubiquitous "social" networks killed the internet a long time ago. Just because TikTok is filled with human-produced slop doesn't make it more valuable than "AI"-produced dreck.
9. Ekaros · 1789805947 · focus · HN ↗

   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.

   1. dormento · 1789832637 · focus · HN ↗

      Certainly. Also, its extra weird because the product that is being boosted can be told to go and boost itself.
10. rich_sasha · 1789807557 · focus · HN ↗

    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.

11. glimshe · 1789811860 · focus · HN ↗

    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.
12. funkyfourier · 1789816569 · focus · HN ↗

    Lately I have been finding myself thinking "let me check AI news" when going to check hacker news...
13. VCFundedGenYer · 1789819804 · focus · HN ↗

    A lot of people here are AI brained, unfortunately.
14. feverzsj · 1789825742 · focus · HN ↗

    Like most promotion posts here, colleague/friend upvotes.
15. sph · 1789827297 · focus · HN ↗

    [delayed]

    1. archagon · 1790048104 · focus · HN ↗

       Sent one if you still need it!

       1. sph · 1790053192 · focus · HN ↗

          [delayed]
16. mindaslab · 1789828630 · focus · HN ↗

    Since, maaybe, everyone has the natural intelligence to think AI is cool, maybe not enough to explore stuff more.

    1. cyanydeez · 1789829638 · focus · HN ↗

       More likely the people on HN are FOMO and theyre like the zombies in the Z movie and will climb over one another to hype up the technology so they can overrun the defenses.
17. chistev · 1789831560 · focus · HN ↗

    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?

18. Henchman21 · 1789848745 · focus · HN ↗

    Because AI bots upvote them endlessly
19. PushkarM · 1789911070 · focus · HN ↗

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20. Yashjain413 · 1789916521 · focus · HN ↗

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