Limiting AI news would hide what is happening to software

There is an Ask HN thread on the front page today asking whether Hacker News can “please limit the AI news flood”. To be fair to its author, this is not a request to ban AI. The complaint is that AI stories take up so much of the front page that interesting hardware, open-source projects and ordinary programming work never escape the newest page. Attention is finite; one story surfacing means another one does not. Could Hacker News put its thumb on the scale and make room for the rest of technology again? There is too much bad writing about AI. Every minor model release arrives with a benchmark selected by its maker, a launch post declaring a new era and fifty people reporting that it either replaced their engineering department before lunch or failed to count the letters in strawberry. The same three arguments consume the comments. I would happily read less of it. Limiting AI stories is still the wrong fix. AI is not a specialist interest taking attention away from software…

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