问HN：还有其他人觉得这个社区最近发生了变化吗？
我自2010年以来以不同的别名在HN上活跃，过去几年我感觉HN的质量急剧下降，我的乐趣也随之减少。今天我第一次质疑自己是否还应该继续使用HN，因此我写下这些内容，部分是为了探索自己的想法，部分是想看看是否还有其他人有类似的感受。
1. 人工智能，人工智能，人工智能。
我明白，人工智能现在是个热门话题，但我发现AI相关的帖子在本质上比以前这里发布的传统科技内容要乏味得多。比如，某人对不同AI模型在绘制鹈鹕时的比较所给出的定性意见，根本没有像这个帖子那样技术上有趣：https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/
2. 这里还有人创业吗？
我明白，我在2010年代末期基本上停止了尝试自主创业。这个行业对没有显著财务支持的单打独斗的创始人来说变得太过竞争激烈，成功的机会微乎其微。而如今情况更为艰难。但我认为这使得HN从一个你经常能看到人们推出酷炫新项目的地方，变成了一个人们只讨论最新大型科技AI模型发布的地方。
3. 政治化和不宽容
我一直喜欢HN的一个原因是它是一个非常开放的地方。在许多方面，它仍然如此，尤其是与其他平台如X和Reddit相比，但即使在这里，我也注意到评论变得更加片面，持有不太受欢迎观点的人更频繁地被标记和降级。
也许只是我个人的感觉，但我从不对人进行降级或标记，除非我真的认为他们的评论是残忍的或明显无视社区准则的。
4. 只是我吗？
我知道我对我成长过程中经历的互联网越来越怀旧……那时候一切都更加令人兴奋，而一切又似乎触手可及。像YouTube这样的网站是革命性的，但仅由三个人创建。MySpace和Facebook也是如此，至少在早期阶段，它们都是由少数人拼凑而成的。
如今，事情很少让人感到新鲜，一切都显得遥不可及。人工智能，尤其是大型语言模型，可能是多年来第一个“新”的东西，但它们与以往的技术完全不同。过去的科技主要是由人们为人们构建的。大型语言模型是很酷的技术，但它们是由公司为公司构建的。YouTube的创建是因为一些人认为创建一个分享视频的网站很酷。而大型语言模型的出现则是因为公司认为构建通用人工智能会很有趣，因此投入了数百万美元招募研究团队来尝试实现这一目标。没有人真正需要它，我也不确定硅谷以外的人是否真的想要……这些产品从根本上来说是不人道的。它们的承诺不是为了娱乐或连接我们，而是为了自动化我们的工作，或者直接取代我们。
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I've been on HN under different aliases since 2010 and over the last couple of years I feel like the quality of HN has nosed dived and so has my enjoyment.<p>For the first time ever I questioned today whether I should continue to use HN anymore so I'm writing this partly to explore my own thoughts and to see if anyone else feels similarly.<p>1. AI, AI, AI.<p>I get it. AI is the big thing right now, but I find AI posts fundamentally less interesting than the traditional tech content that used to be posted here. A post containing someone's qualitative opinion on how different AI models compare when drawing pelicans simply isn't as technically interesting as something like this, https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/<p>2. Does any build startups here anymore?<p>Again, I get it. I largely quit trying to bootstrap my own startup ideas in the late 2010s. The industry became too competitive for a solo founder without significant financial backing to have much of a chance of success. And today it's even harder. But I think this has changed HN from a place where you used to frequently see people launching cool new projects to a place where people just discuss the latest big tech AI model launch.<p>3. Politicisation and intolerance<p>One of the things I've always liked about HN was that it's a very open minded place. And it still is in many ways, especially when compared to other platforms like X and Reddit, but even here I've noticed comments becoming more one-sided and those with less popular opinions more frequently being flagged and downvoted.<p>Perhaps it's just me, but I never downvote or flag people unless I genuinely think their comment is cruel or aggressively disregarding the guidelines.<p>4. Is it just me?<p>I know I've become increasingly nostalgic to the internet I grew up with... Everything was so much more exciting back then, and yet everything felt so in reach. Sites like YouTube were revolutionary yet built by just three people. Same with sites like MySpace and Facebook which again were hacked together by a handful of people, at least in the early days.<p>Today things rarely feel new and everything feels so far from reach. AI, well LLMs, have probably been the first "new" thing for years now, yet they're completely different from what's come before. Past tech was primarily built by people for people. LLMs are cool tech, but they're built by companies for companies. YouTube was built because some people thought it would be cool to build a website for sharing videos with friends. That didn't happen with LLMs. Companies just thought it would be interesting to build AGI so invested millions of dollars recruiting teams of researchers to try to build that. No one is asking for it and I'm not sure anyone outside silicon valley even wants it... These are fundamentally inhuman products. Their promise isn't to entertain or connect us, but to automate our work, or just outright replace us.