Because I am part of this community and since I am yearning for news outside of the AI echo chamber probably some other users here are also looking for it.
Coming to a news aggregator website and asking the users if anyone got news is weird. There's also a lot of posts outside of your imaginary "AI eChO cHaMbEr", which you can see by browsing the site. But how would you make people know that you don't like AI? It's a tough dilemma.
I like AI, I'm not sure where all this luddite project comes from. I want to catch news that are outside of the AI news because it is just overpowering the current news cycle, just that.
I myself am trying NotebookLM to play with my own studies and create content.
But I wonder what else is perhaps getting less attention because AI is overpowering the news cycle, just like it happens in any tech cycle.
Yep, the "news cycle" was dominated by AI news just 2 hours ago, it was an "echo chamber". But now, suddenly and unexpected, it's not like that anymore. And just like that psssh, the echo chamber was gone.
And the people who created the echo chamber are also different now, of course. Let's make a post in the echo chamber and ask them for other news that they didn't want to post on the news website.
You don't want to get my point, that's okay. I don't expect you to.
I think I get your point. Somehow you imagined that I was attacking HN and saying that here is an echo chamber. And somehow you took that personally too.
First of all: I still think the news cycle is skewed towards AI news, case in point: even most of the items on HN front list right now are not news or not tech related. The tech related ones right now (Oct7th-7:15pm PST time) are either:
- AI news;
- Antitrust/lawsuit/lobbying related to bigtechs (kinda tech news, kinda business news);
- Apple related news about their new products and rumors about future hardware
And I don't mean just HN but also looking at my favorite tech podcasts that send tech news (techmeme, hardfork, this week in tech, and so on);
So yeah, objectively speaking not many tech news outside of AI (unless you consider the law stuff and Apple ads).
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Second point, and I beg to differ from your main point:
I think there are different groups here on HN and I assume some people may know things I don't know. AI is getting a lot of attention, but there are a lot of building doing other interesting things in silence.
I hope this clarifies what I meant by news cycle, because I literally meant news and not just frontpage links, and I don't assume the echo chamber is gone... But I also do not assume that everyone is in a conspiracy to post only AI stuff - that just it is natural when most of the money and startups are looking to AI the topic will sometimes burry other things happening.
Btw, have you checked the Show HN recent posts? It is in a similar situation. Does it mean I think that all HN people are building only AI stuff? no.
Here's your delusion, I personally don't believe that.
> You: "Hey guys, so much AI. AI sucks, amirite? Anyone got non AI news?"
> Me: "Why are you asking us, just look at the frontpage. That's the news we have."
But... There were not many news, like I pointed before and you so conveniently ignored :-) there were tech links, but not many tech news. Later on the day Ruby's new release and later on Python's new release didn't even reach the front page.
I'm sorry you are this mentally limited on the internet to even see that there are tons of AI news.
I even pointed out it is not just HN!
Well, there isn't much I can do.
It is just funny how much time you lose on me replying each time since it's just something you don't want, lol
They're just having a conversation; that's one of the things "Ask HN" is for. I don't know why you're getting all triggered over it. Just ignore it if you don't like it.
Did that help you understand?