Epic, about 2/3 of all comments here are jokes. Not because the model is a joke - it's impressive. Not because HN turned to Reddit. It seems to me some of most brilliant minds in IT are just getting tired.

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jedberg 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Us olds sometimes miss Slashdot, where we could both joke about tech and discuss it seriously in the same place. But also because in 2000 we were all cynical Gen Xers :)

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jghn 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Some of us still *are* cynical Gen Xers, you insensitive clod!

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jedberg 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Of course we are, I just meant back then almost all of us were. The boomers didn't really use social media back then, so it was just us latchkey kids running amok!

	▲	jghn 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I know, I just couldn't miss up an opportunity to dust off the insensitive clod meme!

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syndeo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

MAN I remember Slashdot… good times. (Score:5, Funny)

	▲	jedberg 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You reminded me that I still find it interesting that no one ever copied meta-moderating. Even at reddit, we were all Slashdot users previously. We considered it, but never really did it. At the time our argument was that it was too complicated for most users. Sometimes I wonder if we were right.

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Karrot_Kream 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not sure which circles you run in but in mine HN has long lost its cache of "brilliant minds in IT". I've mostly stopped commenting here but am a bit of a message board addict so I haven't completely left.

My network largely thinks of HN as "a great link aggregator with a terrible comments section". Now obviously this is just my bubble but we include some fairy storied careers at both Big Tech and hip startups.

From my view the community here is just mean reverting to any other tech internet comments section.

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jedberg 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> From my view the community here is just mean reverting to any other tech internet comments section.

As someone deeply familiar with tech internet comments sections, I would have to disagree with you here. Dang et al have done a pretty stellar job of preventing HN from devolving like most other forums do.

Sure you have your complainers and zealots, but I still find surprising insights here there I don't find anywhere else.

	▲	Karrot_Kream 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Mean reverting is a time based process I fear. I think dang, tomhow, et al are fantastic mods but they can ultimately only stem the inevitable. HN may be a few years behind the other open tech forums but it's a time shifted version of the same process with the same destination, just IMO. I've stopped engaging much here because I need a higher ROI from my time. Endless squabbling, flamewars, and jokes just isn't enough signal for me. FWIW I've loved reading your comments over the years and think you've done a great job of living up to what I've loved in this community. I don't think this is an HN problem at all. The dynamics of attention on open forums are what they are.

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thr0w 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People are in denial and use humor to deflect.

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lnrd 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's too much energy to keep up with things that become obsolete and get replaced in matters of weeks/months. My current plan is to ignore all of this new information for a while, then whenever the race ends and some winning new workflow/technology will actually become the norm I'll spend the time needed to learn it. Are we moving to some new paradigm same way we did when we invented compilers? Amazing, let me know when we are there and I'll adapt to it.

	▲	jedberg 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I had a similar rule about programming languages. I would not adopt a new one until it had been in use for at least a few years and grew in popularity. I haven't even gotten around to learning Golang or Rust yet (mostly because the passed the threshold of popularity after I had kids).

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tavavex 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's also that this is really new, so most people don't have anything serious or objective to say about it. This post was made an hour ago, so right now everyone is either joking, talking about the claims in the article, or running their early tests. We'll need time to see what the people think about this.

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wasmainiac 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Jeez, read the writing on the wall.

Don’t pander us, we’ll all got families to feed and things to do. We don’t have time for tech trillionairs puttin coals under our feed for a quick buck.

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ggregoire 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Every single day 80% of the frontpage is AI news… Those of us who don't use AI (and there are dozens of us, DOZENS) are just bored I guess.

	▲	dude250711 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Marketing something that is meant to replace us to us...

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sizzle 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Rage against the machine