AI makes you boring(marginalia.nu)

548 points by speckx 8 months ago | 306 comments

A Marginalia weblog post arguing that vibe-coded, AI-aided Show HN projects tend to be boring because their authors have spent little time thinking about the problem.

I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic(sammystraus.com)

313 points by sammy0910 13 days ago | 170 comments

Blog post by the developer of sprinklz.io describing how his site slowed after an HN post due to heavy AI bot and scraper traffic, found via NGINX logs.

Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting

519 points by Oras 7 months ago | 394 comments

Ask HN thread requesting that Hacker News restrict new accounts from posting due to a rise in AI-generated submissions, especially in Show HN.

Marginalia Search Receives FUTO Grant(marginalia.nu)

104 points by asicsp 3 years ago | 7 comments

An NSFW filter for Marginalia search(marginalia.nu)

86 points by speckx 7 months ago | 14 comments

"Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you"(mastodon.social)

155 points by notamy 2 years ago | 104 comments

Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting

519 points by Oras 7 months ago | 394 comments

Ask HN thread requesting that Hacker News restrict new accounts from posting due to a rise in AI-generated submissions, especially in Show HN.

Happy New Year HN!

1218 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 232 comments

A Hacker News discussion thread where a user wishes the community a happy 2024 and commenters share why they value HN.

A Skill.md for Commenting on Hacker News(blog.coredump.cx)

10 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 0 comments

A satirical blog post by lcamtuf framing Hacker News commenting habits as an AI agent SKILL.md, using dice rolls to pick stereotypical comment patterns.

The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News(refactoringenglish.com)

396 points by sharjeelsayed 1 year ago | 113 comments

An interactive leaderboard from Refactoring English ranking personal blog domains by their total Hacker News score, filterable by date range.

You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News(jasonthorsness.com)

431 points by jasonthorsness 1 year ago | 223 comments

Blog post by Jason Thorsness about downloading the full Hacker News dataset and analyzing topic trends over time with DuckDB.

A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors(github.com)

534 points by ssgodderidge 2 years ago | 208 comments

A GitHub README by minimaxir cataloging undocumented features and behaviors of Hacker News, such as karma effects, ranking penalties, and moderation mechanics.