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Comment by hombre_fatal | Hacker News Reader

160 points on a submissions pointing to a tweet from an NFT account posting a low information tiktok video.

Times are changing. I'm having nostalgia for the decades we were only worried about turning into reddit.

The person in the TikTok put on their Scientist Halloween costume though so at least we’re getting good production value. Wouldn’t want to pour dangerous chemicals like corn syrup without gloves on!

Flag the post if you don’t want to see more like this.

It's X.com. We deserve better sources.

I think there are certain things good people ought to do to combat brain rot and malicious actors that they don't do because they feel too icky for a good person to do. Like using a some basic baysian filter trained for sanity. You just take the 160 people that upvote some garbage and penalize them. The internet is too hostile for passive pure hearted systems to survive.

The account almost exclusively posts X/Twitter accounts on HN. Unsurprisingly it's a post-2021 HN account.

Yeah, I know we’re not supposed to say it, but HN is dying. The amount of slop that is getting praise on the site lately is insane.

I'm not sure if dying, but there's definitely been a change, and I wonder about the cause.

So far I thought it was mostly AI companies and users pushing their products here, but maybe there's a shift in userbase as well?

I started to notice a subtle shift a couple years ago. An increase in vibes and hype and a decrease in reason and critical thinking.

Reminiscent of something like Eternal September possibly, but with bots this time? Maybe my interests have simply grown beyond what is typically found here.

> we were only worried about turning into reddit

I don't think there's "we" anymore. A large population of HN readers got to hate the combination of tech and capitalism that HN stands for because its effects on society are horrible. Techno-optimism is dead.

The real story (sorry) is that this post is readable on X without js! Wtf is happening?

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