I don't understand how random thoughts on X are front-page news on Hacker News.

If some tech CEO makes a major announcement on X, it's newsworthy and belongs here. Anything else that's actual news is also fair game ... but all other X posts do not belong here!

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tmp10423288442 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Karpathy is a notable researcher and broader AI leader. Among many, many other things, he invented the term "vibecoding". He also recently posted his autoresearcher project, which is using a swarm of agents to optimize the LLM training and recently produced a training process that is the fastest to achieve GPT-2-level performance using a very small model.

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hungryhobbit 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That's great, he sounds like a great guy ... when he say something newsworthy (on X or anywhere else), it might deserve to be here.

But his random thoughts on X do not.

	▲	tmp10423288442 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		People implement things based on his "random thoughts" (which are higher-quality than many people's longer-form writings).

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

criteria for hitting HN frontpage is generally whether it is interesting to people. That thought is likely the same thought a bunch of us are having at the moment.

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

It easily reaches the front-page for people with a following. I don't think many votes are necessary to get to the front page. And when there's some critical insight or leak.

Aside from that I've seen few posts on X that didn't follow the pattern, and were short lived at the top.

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petcat 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

You can just downvote anything you don't like and move along.