I check in every few weeks and I don't understand how anyone can use that subreddit more frequently.
This is an interesting post, but not a Show HN.
And there is also this https://dewmal.medium.com/hacker-news-is-a-living-time-capsu...
which also includes the average voting scores, which actually fall at the same time the quantity increases (while the average story scores remain the same), which is interesting.
Original title: "Data on AI-related Show HN posts More than 1 in 5 Show HN posts are now AI-related, but get less than half the votes or comments."
6 months ago, 155 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463249
I assume the vast, vast majority never get any upvotes.
Edit: maybe you could:
- remove outliers (anything that made the front page)
- normalise vote count by expected time in the first 20 posts of shownew, based on the posting rate at the time
(edit: striked) <strike>Is it deliberate that this post appears as “Show HN” itself? I hope not to be too negative, but to qualify as such I would expect much more that a page with two graphs.</strike>
https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qfp2t0/mod_ann...
[1] https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...
Responsible people who use their knowledge to review LLM-generated code will produce more - up to their maximum rate of taking responsibility.
Irresponsible people will just smear shit all over the codebase.
The jury is out what's the net effect and the agents' level of sophistication is a secondary factor.
