Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
A Hacker News user argues the feed is flooded with AI news, crowding out general hacker topics like new cooling hardware and open-source devices.
A Hacker News poster complains that the front page has become almost exclusively AI or AI-adjacent content, leaving general hardware and DIY tech submissions without traction. Cited examples include Lenovo's production-ready solid-state air cooling and Brax Industries' modular open-source smart home devices with on-device processing compatible with Home Assistant. The post is community opinion, not a security or AI development story.
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Over past couple months I noticed that HN feed is almost exclusively AI or AI-adjacent news. Meanwhile the legitimately, broad-hacker stuff gets left out for the most part.
I noticed that because the things I find genuinely interesting that I post here now get zero traction, which is the stuff that I believe would previously be met with some discussion.
Note that I don't care that my submissions were ignored, I don't need that validation. Problem is that if my stuff gains no traction, I am myself not seeing similar stuff posted by others, stuff I am genuinely interesting in and would want to hear about from this community.
Here are two most recent examples:
- Lenovo showed a model that incorporates solid-state air cooling. That technology has been around for a while but it looks like it matured and is production-ready. This allows for super-light and slim designs, which, in turn, should allow for bigger batteries installed and I think it's some sort of breakthrough: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580229
- Brax Industries devices, genuinely interesting, open-soruce and innovative, especially the wall display, with its modularity and on-device processing compatible with Home Assistant. I also appreciate the very clean design: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643215
As said, I honestly believe this would gain some traction here on HN a year or two ago. I no longer find HN a good source of "what's new" in the industry, it's almost exclusively AI talk now.
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