How come AI-related posts get so many points on HN?

10 points by Muhammad523 3 hours ago | 8 comments

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

Leonard_of_Q 2 hours ago |

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.

Madmallard 2 hours ago | |

There won't be an after AI

Leonard_of_Q 32 minutes ago | | |

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.

mangeshmam1 2 hours ago |

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.

uptownhr 2 hours ago |

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

throwa356262 2 hours ago | |

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.

AndrewDucker 51 minutes ago | | |

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.

mdp2021 2 hours ago | | |

That of HN is a largely non-random public, not a fully selected public. Of course Paretian distributions are also valid here.

(Edit: and it is evident in this very page.)

linzhangrun 2 hours ago |

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.

BLKNSLVR 2 hours ago |

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.

mdp2021 2 hours ago |

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.

fuzzfactor 2 hours ago |

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

For what it's worth.

Argonautlabs 3 hours ago |

Its all about AI these days.