Ask HN: Has Show HN become LLM-prompt-centric?

8•piratesAndSons•15h ago

It seems to me that Show HN is filled with low-effort see-what-I-prompted-Claude posts—no innovation, no real creation, just yet another copy of a copy. If you’re going to prompt an LLM, at least come up with something original, not the millionth text editor.

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minimaxir•15h ago

Define "low-effort". I recently posted two Show HNs that were mostly written with Claude Code, but overall each took more man hours than my typical (less-ambitious) projects. Reception to both was positive.

> Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543359

> Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682115

mr_o47•9h ago

I definitely liked physics simulator you created, and I don't understand why people think working with Claude is mostly prompting and it's definitely not it does require effect and now we just write the code as its out sourced to the Claude but you are definitely planning and thinking about the problem you are trying to solve

forgotpwd16•13h ago

But seems, as others have also noted, although the mean quality decreases, the quality of those reaching front page increases.

That said port/clones have always been trendy. What has joined their ranks is the significant amount of what are essentially minimal prompt wrappers.

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