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This subreddit is a great one and if you read the announcement they are taking a very sensitive approach.

HN is obviously very pro-ai and many top-level comments mention that blocking AI submissions will leave r/selfhosted in the digital stone age. That's not at all what they are doing.

The vast majority of vibe-coded apps submitted lately have been simply either very low quality, inferior clones of existing apps, or just incomplete non-sense with a good readme. Redditors are rightfully rejecting that but the trend has been to reject it because it is vibe coded and not for the right reason: the low quality.

In a sense they are protecting ai assisted apps from being lumped in all the crap and auto-rejected by the community.

If you rephrase the announcement as Limiting low-quality/low-effort submissions instead of vibe coded, nobody would object.

I've noticed many posts hitting the hn front page in the last few years trending first on r/selfhosted so there's a good overlap between the communities. Before judging I'd encourage you to take a look. I've discovered many apps I use daily through it (immich, jellyfin, frigate-nvr for examples).

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> HN is obviously very pro-ai

mm i'd actually say its more moderated, lots of cynics/skeptics.