I hate whinging but why isn't stuff like this not moved higher on HN's front page? This is a great article yet I keep seeing world politics and other matters rated higher - stuff that (unlike this article) will age like milk.
I hate whinging but why isn't stuff like this not moved higher on HN's front page? This is a great article yet I keep seeing world politics and other matters rated higher - stuff that (unlike this article) will age like milk.
HN doesn't seem interested in robotics generally. You'll see it from time to time but the vast majority of great stuff never makes it to the front page. It's a shame, especially considering (as you point out) the constant political stuff (both overt and subtle) that does make it on here.
It could be that polarizing threads end up more actively voted on compared to “cool stuff” threads. We’re not immune to social network effects after all.
Yeah, that's an issue only admins can address. I would prefer much more aggressive enforcement of the rules about politics, and maybe some rule changes.
I built a very crude app sourcing comments from the HN firehose, classifying them using Gemma 4 and a prompt made from the comment guidelines. It had some amusing results.
The app did a decent job at surfacing problematic comments that a mod can do something about.
It was cool to optimize llama-cpp arguments for throughput. During the slightly off-peak hours the post processing was pretty much real time. I suspect a second 3090 would’ve be enough for peak posting hours too.
Yes I think there's huge potential in this direction. Forum moderation could be made far more scalable this way. If I didn't have another project I was already working on I'd be trying it right now.