> I think the vibe coded show HN projects are overall pretty boring.

Agreed. r/ProgrammingLanguages had to deal with this recently in the same way HN has to; people were submitting these obviously vibecoded languages there that barely did anything, just a deluge of "make me a language that does X", where it doesn't actually do X or embody any of the properties that were prompted.

One thing that was pointed out was "More often than not the author also doesn't engage with the community at all, instead they just share their project across a wide range of subreddits." I think HN is another destination for those kinds of AI slop projects -- I'm sure you could find every banned language posted on that forum posted here.

Their solution was to write a new rule and just ban them outright. Things have been going much better since.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/1pf9j...