I turn on the `showdead` option, and at the `New Links` section I can see a lot more "Show HN" posts that are flagged dead.
detectivestory 10 minutes ago |
I tried to share a project on Show HN recently (twice!), and I didn't get a single user interaction (basically no one even visited the project, nevermind responding with a comment). I don't think my title was that bad, its more just that there are so many new projects using AI that people are fatigued from it. Its kind of a shame because I'm sure there are lots of really good ideas that are being completely overlooked because of this.
aeonfox 4 minutes ago |
With Show HN vs a regular submission you're shoved on shownew, which gets a lot less eyeballs than new. If you get enough votes, you're supposedly moved from shownew to top stories, but somehow 5 votes wasn't enough for me (though I saw other posts that got there with just 2). I'd like to see someone attempt to persuade me otherwise, but I really don't see the value in using the Show HN: prefix.
keepamovin 8 minutes ago |
I guess the real question is: is the decrease in average score more than just a function of a larger ratio (and its expected long tail score distribution)?
keiferski 5 minutes ago |
Anecdotally it feels like there aren’t very many Show HNs on the home page. Sadly they seem to be increasingly pushed out by big news stories.
yellow_lead 2 minutes ago |
It's hard not to blame LLMs. There was someone on the front page with a Show HN for some LLM-generated calculators recently.