more tools I will never use or need theres just an endless supply of new open source projects now I stopped paying attention

I increasingly feel the impact of landing on the frontpage of HN is not as pronounced as it used to be. The demographic shift of HN is also noted, it has a lot more "reddit" vibe than I remember.

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trollbridge 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Kind of sad, because I can't think of anywhere that's replacing this.

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Karrot_Kream an hour ago | parent [-]

tbh I think open internet forums are just dead. It was fun while it lasted but the reason it was good is because of the gatekeeping conditions (not to say that the gatekeeping didn't push away valuable contributors) that kept the internet forums hard to access.

GCs, blogs, and small chatrooms are the way.

	▲	zuzululu a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		already on HN I am seeing a lot of generated or AI assisted comments. on Reddit, sometimes I will engage in a debate then it gets drawn out and I realize I am talking to a bot. perhaps the biggest hit is the trust, now people will just jump to conclusion and say your comment is AI and overall the presence that I used to feel from before the AI days is not there. its no longer rewarding and ironically i've started to engage a lot less and seek human connections outside so perhaps there is an upside. I also see a lot of people cutting back on instagram and social media use. AI appears to be slowly driving people off the internet and towards analog real human connection but its very subtle and too little to celebrate

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stronglikedan 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

there's always been an endless supply of open source projects, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find an open source replacement for this project

	▲	verdverm 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There are dozens or hundreds of sandbox projects and companies now. It's the new vector database / agent memory until people notice OCI can do most of this and is already widely adopted in industry.