Some please write a web plugin to use AI to analyze comments so we can filter partisan comments and only read the truly engaging and intelligent comments by more objective people.

I will contribute $$$.

Same.

tgtweak has a good one in here.

I keep a forum going that's been up since 2007 for hobbyists. I keep it going because of the priceless historical information on it, not the present quality of discussion.

My sense is that people have become less literate, less polite, and less patient.

Again, this is for a simple hobby so there aren't necessarily many intellectuals in this hobby, but 10+ years ago we had many lively, intelligent, long discussions.

What happens is you start getting more and more users who barge in, hijack threads, and do not contribute anything useful.

They can also be abrasive, which spooks the old timers from prior generations who were used to intelligent, polite discussion where they agree to disagree.

Eventually the quality content thins out, and there's a sort of Reddit effect where you get one solid reply for every ten useless ones.

These days I find most of the new users are just looking to find out what their collection is worth.

As those new users fill up screen space with vacuous content, the old timers are fading away either through attrition or illness or death.

On the technical side, you're constantly battling bots because your domain age and reputation is targeted by spammers.

He wasn't invading or threatening to invade multiple countries at a time, including those of allies.

Yes, we did. And that discussion had a most definite conclusion.

There were A1 stories about his age and mental acuity constantly. The discussion was so intense that Biden dropped out of the presidential race.

Invading a NATO ally was never on the table.

No body would do that, only an insane person.

Fucking endlessly, yes.

Biden was ostensibly too old when he became President, but he hadn't started the obvious decline that we all witnessed in 2024.

And I still would much rather have had Biden for those four years than have had to face what we're facing now with Trump back then. Except with Trump being 4 years farther away from death than he is now...

Yes, actually. Enough people did (media, dnc leaders and supporters) have that discussion, to the point that Biden did not run for re-election.

Imagine how much better things would be if we did have that discussion. Lets not make the same mistake twice

We did have that discussion and almost certainly the DNC also had it with more than a handful of media appearances written off as gaffes. They decided their best chances were to stick with Biden.

How many of his Coffee with Scott Adams broadcasts did you watch before forming the "off the rails" opinion?

I think HN should embrace AI to the point of having an alternative AI-generated title next to the original title, to reduce clickbait and reduce the global rage index.

This is an interesting idea, I think clickbait titles are one of many problems with our engagement-based social media tools today. For the sake of experimentation and transparency, here's the suggested titles from ChatGPT 4. They seem to be more descriptive and accurate overall.

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Possible alternative titles that better match the article’s content:

How Phishers Are Using SendGrid to Target SendGrid Users with Political Bait

– Accurately reflects the mechanism (SendGrid abuse), the audience, and the novel political/social-engineering angle.

SendGrid Account Takeovers Are Fueling a Sophisticated Phishing Ecosystem

– More technical / HN-native framing, avoids culture-war implications.

Phishception: Politically Targeted Phishing Sent Through Compromised SendGrid Accounts

– Highlights the core insight and the self-reinforcing nature of the attack.

I've been thinking about building a browser extension that turns clickbait headlines into factual titles.

"Why is SendGrid emailing me about supporting ICE?" becomes "Phishing Campaign Targets SendGrid Users via Compromised Accounts and Politically Charged Bait"

I think it would be more time than I'd like to commit though.

I like this idea. Also a split-window view that uses AI to fact-check and de-bias content, or at least point out bias. Perhaps color coded.

I've been pleasantly surprised how well AI does describing bias, no matter the bias, which gives me hope.

I tried to vibe code it about a year ago(a firefox extension), worked surprisingly good. Basically for a small set of web sites I frequent, just rewrite titles or remove links all together if a title is a click-bait or ragebait.

There is a chance that the title here was intentionally worded to answer a question people are likely to search for, then actually answer their concerns.

Then the "alternative AI-generated title next to the original title" would say so.

HN would never do that, it would violate the minimalism of the site.

Most people aren't even aware that their posted URLs can be changed or their titles re-edited automatically because the UI doesn't give affordances for anything. You're just expected to notice and edit it out within the edit window (which there also isn't an affordance for.)

I don't like LLMs much, though I also don't really care much either, and I don't trust any models to get the content nuance right. But I'd still welcome it if it helps a little between the tons of clickbait or just straight up incorrect or sensationalist titles.

Mods regularly rewrite titles to improve clarity and this is probably a good candidate.

That's a pretty good idea as long as humans could review/approve.

You don't see how a rogue government might affect technology, the people who build technology, the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness, and essentially all elements of the lives we're used to leading? Seems relevant.

How is it not?

Um, no, I cannot imagine that.

Try harder.

Most doctors are just people who had a strong ability to pass tests and finish medical school.

Most of the ones I've worked with aren't passionate about their specialty or their patients, and their neglect and mistakes show it.

> Most doctors are just people who had a strong ability to pass tests and finish medical school.

This is a tautology. “Most doctors are just (doing lots of work there) people who had the ability to meet the prerequisites for…becoming a doctor.”

Are doctors fallible? Of course. Is there room for improvement with regard to LLM’s? Hopefully. Does that mean there’s reason to spread general distrust in doctors? Fuck no. Until now they were the only chance you had at getting health care.

Don't fall for that. Jackson is dead, and all but a convicted sex offender when he was alive. He's an easy one to leave unredacted.

Unredacted Jackson gives Leavitt and the Trumpist podcasters something to praise: some percentage of photos have an unredacted face in them. DoJ are doing their job!

My partner doesn't even have health insurance.

My deductible is $8300, but at least it's 100% coverage once I hit that.