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Comment by hungryhobbit | Hacker News Reader

I don't understand how random thoughts on X are front-page news on Hacker News.

If some tech CEO makes a major announcement on X, it's newsworthy and belongs here. Anything else that's actual news is also fair game ... but all other X posts do not belong here!

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Karpathy is a notable researcher and broader AI leader. Among many, many other things, he invented the term "vibecoding". He also recently posted his autoresearcher project, which is using a swarm of agents to optimize the LLM training and recently produced a training process that is the fastest to achieve GPT-2-level performance using a very small model.

That's great, he sounds like a great guy ... when he say something newsworthy (on X or anywhere else), it might deserve to be here.

But his random thoughts on X do not.

People implement things based on his "random thoughts" (which are higher-quality than many people's longer-form writings).

Let people decide that. This particular thought for example is interesting. Its about a shift in the UX of agentic development that i do feel is severly lacking. Its the kind of thing that seeks obvious once pointed out. People was to be partof the conversation. i think its fine if its not pa ckaged in a self important blogpost, its still worth reading

Sounds as though one to follow on Twitter… and not duplicate here?

> Among many, many other things, he invented the term "vibecoding".

Yeah, that's a great reason to hate him, but the person you're responding to asked why his Twitter braindroppings belong on the front page.

It should be stated, again, that Karpathy completely missed the boat on LLMs, leaving OpenAI before they developed ChatGPT, and that he convinced Tesla to pursue a visual-only, no LIDR approach to FSD that doesn't work and probably won't ever work until after LIDR-based systems have already solved FSD.

Karpathy is the AI-equivalent of Sam Altman, who, for whatever reason, only fails upward. I think many HNers like him because he reminds them of themselves. Look at this bullshit and tell me it doesn't read like something the average HNer would write: http://karpathy.github.io/2020/06/11/biohacking-lite/

criteria for hitting HN frontpage is generally whether it is interesting to people. That thought is likely the same thought a bunch of us are having at the moment.

Karpathy is more of a thought leader than most CEOs tbf. I find that instead of hyping up things to male more money, he genuinely discusses things he thinks are interesting and offers very good insights on them. He coined the term vibecoding. Even if your not bullish on AI, the mans worth listening to

It easily reaches the front-page for people with a following. I don't think many votes are necessary to get to the front page. And when there's some critical insight or leak.

Aside from that I've seen few posts on X that didn't follow the pattern, and were short lived at the top.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

You can just downvote anything you don't like and move along.

Karpathy is a ceo of his startup.

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