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points by afavour 5 days ago | 0 comments
Given that the top comment yesterday said “this is insane […] I’m shook” I’d say no, it wasn’t all that obvious to everyone.

As someone who uses LLMs in their coding but doesn’t pay attention to every development this is why I find it all so exhausting. I keep feeling like I need to keep up to date but there’s no point reading incremental updates because everything is so overhyped.

[–] yorwba 5 days ago
Reading an article takes more time than commenting, which takes more time than voting. So the typical life cycle of a HN post is that people vote on it without reading the article, comment without reading the article, vote on the comments without reading the article, and respond to comments without reading the article, until after some time people who've actually read the article show up in the comments with some clarifications, saving everyone else the bother of having to read it themselves.

If you want to escape the hype, reading posts with no upvotes and no comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/newest is an option, though somewhat hit-or-miss.

[–] jackb4040 5 days ago
Gotta get to the IPO, whatever it takes.
[–] ipsum2 4 days ago
The people who wrote the paper are MIT grad students, not IPOing.
[–] ssivark 4 days ago
AI research publishing cycles unfortunately have a similar incentive structure.

Eg. This is not uncommon advice: https://maxwellforbes.com/posts/your-paper-is-an-ad/

[–] jryle70 4 days ago
Your resume is an ad as well. Doesn't mean that it is incorrect.