On the second page, it's 9. On the third, 11.
It seems unlikely that many people are downvoting them so quickly, and for most I can't see why they should be dead.
I know that there's websites known to publish only AI slop which are probably blacklisted here, but it seems unlikely that a third of the submissions are about them.
There's some automatic AI filter now?
How does it work, and are people assumed to check all recent dead posts and vouch for them if they don't deserve to be dead?
I imagine that the wide majority of users assume there's a good reason for something to be dead, and ignore it rather than performing that check.
kay_o•1h ago
newsomix9xl•1h ago
g-b-r•1h ago
And if it's some Hacker News own bot doing some of the killing, that should be declared.
And a ton of other things, I like Hacker News's interface and in part its user base, but I'd change much of the rest.
g-b-r•1h ago
Since dead posts are only shown to logged in users we can't even use archive.org to check the reliability of the flagging
kay_o•49m ago
Currently on new for dead/flagged: new account self spam / new account zero effort ai slop spam / new account zero effort ai slop spam / show hn ai slop with all default llm design / spam / spam / spam / account that has never posted anything but its own blog / spam (all of dev.to is dead afaik, because it is nothing but a spam source; there are no useful posts on it)
There is nothing that I consider even slightly interesting or reasonable or innovative to hackers. I am also not anti-gen AI but there is a line between "person has used claude to create something" and "literal zero-effort unreviewed trash that is a waste of the environment". >99% of ones I'm see in /new is the latter.