Meta comment: 11/13 comments currently are pop-culture references (Flowers for Algernon, Pinky and the Brain, other movies) or generic phrases and only 2 comments relate to the actual article. I've been on HN for over a decade, and this is the worst it's ever been.
I am aware of the guidelines, considering how long I've been here. However, I have offered proof, that over 80% of the comments do not contribute anything and are exactly like those of Reddit.
Comments still turn up useful insights that you don't usually catch on other places, like the top one. I think the trend of low quality AI related crap getting to top of the front page is more annoying.
Here's a formula you can try :
Title : "I made a AI powered insert tool use-case"
Article: "Hey look what I did ! By hooking up insert LLM model to this insert random tool in a few hours of vibe coding I got it to do something that vaguely resembles something useful and made no effort to evaluate performance/compare to anything. Here's my toy demo example."
Should be front page material, going on the last few months.
Downvote, flag, and move on. These people don't understand the difference between HN and Reddit and there's always going to be more influx than you have bandwidth to talk out of it.
> There are much better professional discussions on
That is the random peak that results from lucky combinations in some corners of a space - it is not owing to how the channel works, it is not owing to the culture it promotes.
Comparing the best of the best of Reddit against "most HN threads" isn't a good argument. Either compare the best of the best of both (I'd argue that HN comes out on top on most tech / programming related issues, and Reddit comes out on top more on more general topics), or compare averages to averages (Here HN comes out on top in my view).
The comparison of best-of-the best is not that useful in practice because you have to filter through so much noise to find it, so the average case is more useful in practice.
