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Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Just new ones for now.

I don't want to make HN harder for legit new users, but I do think a bit of community participation is reasonable before posting a Show HN, so it isn't just a box on some "how to promote your project" checklist.

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It's really hurting the brand. I can't remember the last time I bothered to even check that index. I used to check it all the time.

/newest is pretty grim, too. Go there and click any link, and odds are you won't even need to read the contents to know it's AI generated, because you'll immediately be met by one of:

- A landing page that looks exactly like every single AI generated landing page ever, I don't even need to describe it, you already know what it looks like

- An article or blog post headered by an image with the Gemini logo in the corner

- A Github repository with CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md and/or 50 large commits made in the span of a day

I'd estimate that more than half of new submissions now fall into one of the above categories.

There's almost no shot to get hand authored posts some views (I tried with one of mine recently). I felt like I submitted it and a moment later there were like 20 new very obviously AI generated posts ahead of it.

I recently had the same experience with a Show HN thread I posted.

It does seem, anecdotally, that the Show HN is being used less since the recent analytic posts that made it to the front page.

How new is new?

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