I still find it baffling how the idea that HN is "unashamedly anti-ai" gets repeated.

Every single model release gets submitted within minutes of an announcement and frequently break 1000+ points within an hour or two. Blog posts about vibe coding or the current flavor of harness/workflow/tool are constantly making the front page. Karpathy's latest writing/presentations or "Learn how LLMs work using X" are perennial front page content.

There were moments in 2023/2024 where all but a handful of posts on the front page were about AI (and not the Reddit r/popular "residents worried about infrasound and EM radiation near new datacenter" variety).

For example, the responses to this very recent post were overwhelmingly praising Gen AI's capabilities:

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406174

Or this post which rocketed to 2000+ points a year ago without bothering to steel man opposing arguments:

My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063

There are counter examples of course but just because HN isn't exclusively AI hype at all times doesn't mean it's "unashamedly anti-AI".

I honestly can't think of any single topic other than the Snowden leaks in 2013/2014 that even comes close to dominating HN discussion like LLMs/GenAI from 2022 to present.