[abcde666777]

Are these kinds of articles a new breed of rage bait? They keep ending up on the front page with thriving comment sections, but in terms of content they're pretty low in nutritional value.

So I'm guessing they just rise because they spark a debate?

[sph]

It’s both rage and hype bait, farming karma.

The optimists upvote and praise this type of content, then the pessimists come to comment why this field is going to the dogs. Rinse and repeat.

[eastbound]

There’s barely any debate, people don’t answer each other; It’s rather about invoking the wonder and imagination of everyone’s brain. Like spatial conquest or an economic crisis: It will change everything but you can’t do anything immediately about it, and everyone tries to understand what it will change so they can adapt. It’s more akin to 24hrs junk news cycle, where everything is presented as an alert but your tempted to listen because it might affect you.

[anoplus]

I am interested in a post that will teach me how to consume only the news that really relevant for me

[layer8]

It is the meta-level counterpart of the fact that LLMs are difficult to reason about.

[elzbardico]

Vibe coders are the new eternal september

[herodoturtle]

I didn’t catch this reference, so adding the below for other folks in the same boat:

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

“Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. Before this, the only sudden changes in the volume of new users of Usenet occurred each September, when cohorts of university students would gain access to it for the first time, in sync with the academic calendar.”

[discreteevent]

Eternal LLMber

[feverzsj]

You can get to the front page easily with dozen upvotes, like from your colleagues and friends. Sadly, that's possibly the only way to get your post some attention here now.

[janandonly]

I would disagree. It’s true that scouring the New section reveals a lot of hidden gems, but I know from experience that one in every 20-30 of my submissions ends up on the frontpage.

[etrvic]

I once read here on HN that a good metric for filtering controversial comment sections is number of upvotes/comments. If it's bellow one, the thread is probably controversial.

[layer8]

Are you saying controversial is good or bad?

[ThrowawayTestr]

In common parlance, this would be called "ratioing".

[bonoboTP]

This comment has even lower nutritional value. It's just a "dislike" with more words. You could have offered your counterarguments or if you're too tired of it but still feel you need to be heard, you could have linked to a previous comment or post of yours.

[abcde666777]

Well, I didn't articulate it but behind my comment was a question - who's actually upvoting this stuff and why?

To me the claim of the article was silly on the surface of it, silly enough that I was surprised that folks consider it worthy of discussion.

Is there just a large number of upvoters here without even a basic understanding of the topic at hand? Or is there some other explanation beyond that?

[rTX5CMRXIfFG]

I mean, are you gonna die on a hill defending every low-quality content in HN? Because I think it’s perfectly OK to call it out so that moderators can notice and improve. You seem to think that readers have an inherent responsibility to salvage someone else’s bad article.

[g947o]

I complained about the same thing, but apparently people take the bait.

Which is why I only quickly scan through the comments to see if there are new insights I haven't seen in the past few months. Surprise, almost never.

[j45]

Maybe it still could be new to some.

[xyzsparetimexyz]

This one didn't contain a sepia tinted ai slop diagram so it beats the average

[zkmon]

> So I'm guessing they just rise because they spark a debate?

Precisely. Attention economy. It rules.

[simianwords]

What I find interesting is that similar propositions made 2 years ago was ragebait to the same people but they ended up coming true.

[wiseowise]

It is still a rage bait.