Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

Part of the value I get from HN is that it's a barometer for tech trends.

You can pretty much predict what the discourse will be in the comments, but what I'd like to keep an eye on is how many people are getting real value out of current gen AI.

So far the things I'm reading are generally in line with my own experiences. I really would like to know of/when that changes so I can figure out what I've missed.

If we hide/fork it's obvious the AI-centric HN will become an echo chamber and the signal to noise will be terrible.

I don't want to lose that here, as it's generally pretty good.

This post is turning up at least every other day. The last few times my reply was "AI is 4/30 or 5/30 of the front page, it's not such a big deal", but today it is 9/30.

I am wondering what the ratio is for VC and angel dealflow in the valley right now.

Hanging out on the "new" page and upvoting quality non-AI articles is an effective method of resistance.

Feature request: HN could support a tag or label for categorizing a post. This would allow for filtering trivially, and creating views based on participant interest.

Prevention of bots and other kinds of automation takes precedence over any thematic changes.

If that is done first, we might not need to separate subjects.

HN lacks even the most basic aspects of human verification.

curious, couldn't AL/llm related content also have interesting new information? im not referring to ai generated sloppy articles. more so the deep tech behind it. personally im super interested in machine learning and love it when i come across such links here.

Unfortunately, this is simply a by product of the fact that this is both news and the state of the world.

Like most it too will come to pass (as it is further adopted in the mainstream and becomes commonplace).

No, I have zero interest in LLM and ignoring the posts has worked fine for me. The political posts are causing more damage IMO.