I'm sad that it's crowding some of those things out of existence, not just out of being talked about.

Not limited to here, of course. Net-new publications to ArXiv for some (most?) CS subcategories are >=90% about models, transformers, training, quantization, or some other directly related field, or how to apply these towards a different specialty.

you can at least block some of it out with ublock origin?

  news.ycombinator.com##td.title:has-text(/LLM|AI/i)

I use a bookmarklet for this: https://github.com/dan-lovelace/hn-blocklist

It doesn’t matter if nobody votes interesting stuff out of /new because the rest of HN only cares about AI posts.

This is completely normal when a new thing is in the third section of the technology adoption curve.[0] AI will either go away (unlikely) or become a footnote in posts about what people are doing with it in the next stage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle

Alternately: the trough of disillusionment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

HN needs an "AI" tab, and the ability to flag things as AI

Some of it very interesting, but maybe it shouldn't be on the home page unless it's a certain critical mass (similar to show HN)?